7 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Me

It's January of 2009 now, and I've been tagged by Pam Thompson to reveal 7 things you (probably) didn't know about me. What a lovely little challenge! Everyone loves talking about themselves (don't they?)

Here we go:

1. I am an ENFJ on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. (This means I'm very inspiring, but if you need something practical done for you and I'm around, well you're bang  out of luck!)

2. My life is a string of obsessions to learn new skills! I've spent two years now stubbornly learning Korean. I'm getting somewhere, very slowly.

3. I have a YouTube channel where, like every other bozo, put really amateur musical performances up! However, I've had a couple of popular videos. This one has over 30,000 views, although it gets poor ratings! This one is popular too. Oh, and now I've written a silly song about Web 2.0 possibilities and education.

4. I have a rare neurological disorder called Charcot-Marie-Toothe disease. I have to concentrate hard to walk around, and especially go up and down stairs. People don't necessarily notice, or just think I have a limp. Several students have sincerely asked me if I have a wooden leg. I certainly don't, I just come across rather uncoordinated.

5. I'm constantly reading Science Fiction & playing cooperative computer games like a 15 year old geek, & I see at least one film a week at the cinema, often by myself.

6. In person I come across as endlessly cheerful and extroverted, but I am actually quite melancholy, and need heaps of time by myself.

7. I am bizarrely obsessed by the U.K. comedian Ricky Gervais, creator of The Office. My wife chastises me for beginning to act more like him every day. Apart from The Office, Extras, and heaps of other stuff, he's recorded well over 100 hours of radio shows with Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington. I listen to these endlessly while bike riding, washing up, or in the car.

Comments

[Anne Mirtschin]

What a very honest portrayal! Thank you for sharing. I would love to know how you did the animations of your self images on this post.

[Stephen Collis]

Thanks Anne. The animation is a ".gif" file. I'm not sure how you make them... a friend of mine took the photos and stitched them together into the .gif format. Once you've got the .gif file, if you insert it into the blog post it animates itself.

[Pam Thompson]

What an interesting 7 things post Steve. Thanks for sharing. I love Ricky Gervais too. We've just watched his stand-up show Fame - very funny!

[Jimmy Jubes]

hello collis... you're not a doctor

[Pam Arvanitakis]

Hi Steve
you just asked to follow me on Twitter so I'm just checking you out. Funnily enough we have something in common - CMT is also in my family. My dad started to suffer from it in his early70's and now his sister suffers from it too- she's in her 80's. there are 5 kids in our family (now old kids) and none of us show symptoms yet- but we are aware of the possibility. You are obviously in that category of people who are affected early in life unfortunately. however, you seem to have a marvellous sense of humour - will take you a long way!