Welcome

Make sure you go welcome @ThomFaust to the team and spam up his page with love

Linky

So, lots of links to give you

^orangefruits' dA 9th Birthday: Balloon Photography Contest at [link]
$chix0r's journal at [link] go read it, it'll be good for you, or, at least your blood pressure anyway
=Jucali's news article at [link]
$Moonbeam13's journal at [link]
$realitysquared's journal at [link]
$eStunt's contest at [link] - this one should be of interest to the rare emoticon artists that watch me
^DCZed's dA birthday presents contest at [link]

(psst, if you think you have a dA related article (be it in the form of a journal or news, that you want to share, even if you didn't write it yourself, then please do )

Old Meme Is Old

Yes, yes, this meme is old, originally ganked from ^StJoan's journal Vain Insight, birthdays and sloths, it took me this long to actually finish it.
I'm unsure if it's a good or bad thing that I took so long answering this, when, strictly speaking, I haven't actually completed (yes, I cheated ) anyway, onwards with the meme

Ten Things I Wish I Could Say to People:

1. Your idea of socialising and my idea of socialising do not match, stop telling me I need to get out more, I have no desire to be any more social' than I already am.


2. I wish I had taken the time to get to know you better


3. I wish you were still alive today


4. Stop telling me what I already know, it's clearly not helping


5. It would be nice if you noticed me


6. I think you're beautiful, don't let any one else make you think differently


7. I wish I had some of your confidence


8. I wish you didn't have so much confidence


9. Stop pretending to know more than you actually do, it's annoying correcting you and it's embarassing to see others correct you


10. Please learn to be a little more tolerant, you might actually learn something

Nine things about myself:

1. I spend a lot of time in active discussion with myself... out loud.


2. I'm vaso-vagal trypanophobic, in other words I can pass out in the presence of medical needles, it's worse if I'm stuck with one


3. I've never broken a bone (you may think I'm tempting fate, but I made that statement enough times to know that I'm really, really not )


4. I've never been able to draw, yet it's the one skill I've most wished to have


5. Apparently, my hair line is receding, but I have no problem with going bald


6. I've been into computers and science for as long as I can remember, probably ever since I was introduced to the concepts


7. I forget my dreams practically as soon as I open my eyes


8. I can only sleep when physically exhausted, meaning I either have ~36 hour days, or I sleep for only 4 hours a day


9. I don't know myself well enough to tell you nine things about myself

Eight ways to win my heart:

1. Be unafraid to show your intelligence, even if no one understands you (of course, this is contingent on actually being intelligent in the first place )


2. Accept me for who and what I am


3. Share some of my interests


4. Laugh at the same stuff I laugh at


5. Be honest with me


6. Err, that's about it really


7. Yeah, I know


8. I'm really that easy

Seven things that cross my mind a lot:

1. Love


2. Life


3. Physics


4. Computers


5. Religion


6. The Future


7. Planning stories that I will eventually get around to actually writing

Six things I do before I fall asleep:

1. Check my email


2. Check for new messages on dA


3. Check for new video's/comments on youtube


4. Strip down to boxers and t-shirt


5. Brush my teeth


6. Take my glasses off

Five places I want to visit:

1. America


2. New Zealand


3. Japan


4. India


5. Brazil

Four things I'm wearing right now:

1. Glasses


2. T-Shirt


3. Boxers


4. Socks

Three bands that I listen to often:

1. Fatboy Slim


2. The Crystal Method


3. Justice

Two things I want to do before I die:

1. Have a family


2. Live forever ()

One confession:

1. I should try to be more outgoing