Weird meme

Janet started a meme, which started the whole world meming...

Ten weird things about me? Hell everything about me is weird.

1. My first full novel read was Brave New World. I was eight.

2. As a kid I wrote to all the Soviet as well as the American space centres looking for information. I'm sure there's an intelligence file on me aged 12 somewhere. I kept a card index of all cosmonauts and astronauts. I probably knew more than the FBI.

3. My first introduction to philosophy was Søren Kierkegaard. I read nearly all his works. I regained sanity about my mid-20s.

4. That was while I was doing a theology bachelor's degree. I topped my year but lost my faith midway, so I switched to philosophy, although history was a near-thing.

5. I worked full-time while doing my BTh, my BA, my computing certificate and my postgraduate MA and PhD. It took me 25 years.

6. I hate sports of all kinds and flavours. I grew up in Melbourne, the home of Australian Rules football and never saw a game. I never even watched cricket, although I played it as a kid. I stopped when it became clear that no matter where they put me on the field, my head acted as a local attractor for the ball.

7. I read all kinds of science fiction, the trashier the better. I recall reading that my favourite short story by Arthur C. Clarke, "The Sentinel" was going to be made into a film by a little known director named Kubrick, and waited impatiently for four years for it to come out. I was the only person in Melbourne who saw it not stoned - seven times.

8. I blew up a clinker brick incinerator full of green grass clippings by pouring two-stroke fuel into it to get it going. I was ten feet away from it when it went up, and none of the bricks that flew past me happened to hit me. I lost all the hair on the back of my head and got thrown six feet. I was 14. I wanted to do it again, but thought it might be pushing my luck.

9. I was addicted to opiated hash for six months and never knew until the supply ran out. I also managed to have two really bad acid trips, in which I thought I was dead and in hell.

10. I cannot remember names to save my life. I've even been known to confuse my kids' names, and they are different genders. Despite this, I was once a public relations officer for an institute of technology.

And that's just the start.