an A-Z for your re-viewing pleasure (A)

Member Name: alocin

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Date:	02/05/03 (40 review reads)
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For some reason people seem to put their own A-Z’s under the “A” category. I don’t really know why but I thought I would join in! So here, for your re-viewing pleasure, is alocin’s A-Z!

A: A is for the band known as A, under which people place their A-Z’s on dooyoo. I happen to quite like this band so they are my first entry. My favourite track is “Starbucks” but “Nothing” is also quite good to shout along to in the car!

B: B’s are insects that pollinate flowers and make honey, but B also stands for Bambi. A wonderful film, the first Disney movie I ever saw. The bit where his mum dies is so sad! Why must kid’s films always have heartbreaking moments? Ah but he is so cute.

C: C is for cat. I have two cats, one called Jasper and one called Smudge. I love them very much and am going to miss them loads when I go off to university (more than my parents!). They like to kill small creatures and leave them on the landing where I am likely to tread on them in the dark, but they can do no wrong in my eyes. Yes they do have me wrapped around their little tails.

D: D is for destruction. A trail of this seems to follow me around wherever I go. If it is breakable then keep it in a safe place when I am near – mugs fall, glasses shatter, wing mirrors are knocked off and important documents have coffee spilt on them. Keep a 5m radius from me to be safe!

E: E is a class A drug, but not being into such things it does not feature in my A-Z. Instead E is for energy, a characteristic I rarely possess when needed, such as now when I should be revising for my exams. E is also for exams. God I hate them. And yet I seem to have hundreds. Wish me luck in June.

F: F is for flowers. I never seem to get any. Why is this? Answers on a postcard.

G: G is for goat. When I was around five years old we went to a farm park. There were goats. It is a complicated st
ory but the result was a goat ate a large chunk of my hair. This has left me with a permanent distrust of goats, a condition difficult in this modern world where we must deal with the creatures so often. I suspect they may have something to do with my glasses going missing (see “I”).

H: H is for hermit. I sometimes think that I would make quite a good hermit, not having to have pointless conversations with telesales people and communicating generally in a monosyllabic way. Then I think wait – hermits don’t get TV and I would miss then end of 24. I will found a new group of hermits who get to keep TV and computers.

I: I is for seeing with. I need glasses to drive and watch TV, as my vision is OK in my left eye but very short-sighted in my right. My glasses are never where I left them – I swear someone must go around and move them when I am not looking. Why must they torment me!?

J: J is for jam. I like jam a lot, although marmalade is my favourite. It is very nice in a sandwich with peanut butter, but most people make gagging noises when I describe it. It’s delicious! Jam should be pip and seed free if at all possible.

K: K is for kite. Let’s go fly a kite, up to the highest height! Well maybe not right now, it being dark, cold and rainy. When the weather clears up and it gets lighter so you can see power cables and the like. Kites can be death-traps you know.

L: L is for law. I am planning to study law at university with the view to being a solicitor. I enjoy A Level a lot, homicide being a lot of fun. Honest it is! Law textbooks are both very heavy and expensive. A dangerous combination.

M: M is for mountains. I have never seen one in real life, living in rolling Devon which is not noted for rugged mountain ranges. Disliking climbing even the smallest of hills and having a healthy fear of heights I don’t have any particular desire to correct this.

N: N i
s for Nicola. That is actually my name. Alocin – Nicola, own up who didn’t notice before I told them?

O: O is for olives. I don’t like olives. Not good enough? Ok then O is for orange juice, which I do like. Ovaltine – don’t like. Octupus - never tried. Accept it I just can’t think of anything good for the letter O.

P: P is a normal bodily function, about which we do not require any toilet humour. Toilet humour, get it? He he he.

Q: Q is for queuing. A great British tradition that we are very good at. I personally think that it makes my legs tired but I will join in the public lynching of anyone who queue jumps. Get to the back of the line – I’ve waited a long time to look smug about the fact that I am 12 people ahead of you!

R: R is for reading, riting and rithmatic. Who came up with that? They obviously missed out the spelling part of the second one. I’m OK at the first two but my maths has seriously declined since GCSEs. I had trouble working out 10% staff discount the other day!

S: S is for SARS. I just thought I would be topical to show that I pay some attention to the news!

T: T would be quite nice thanks, milk and no sugar. And some digestives if you’ve got them. Ta ever so much.

U: U are hopefully reading and even possibly enjoying this list. OK I might be stretching it with enjoyment, but toleration is enough for me!

V: V is for voting. Not nearly enough people do these days. You have a voice so use it! People fought long and hard so that everyone could have their say. Even if you just write “You are all rubbish candidates – I abstain” on the paper you have spoken. I think there should be a box saying that which you could tick.

W: W is for Wales, which is where I am hoping to go to uni. I know that this is quite sad but I think that it is really cool and exotic to have everything in two languages,
like fire exit signs and things. I know Cardiff isn’t exactly deepest darkest Wales but I think it’s great and am going to try and get beyond “bora da” or whatever hello is in Welsh.

X: X is a very difficult letter to receive in Scrabble. I suggest cheating and trying to avoid getting it in the first place. If not then there is always “ox”.

Y: Y do people put A-Z’s of themselves under the band A? I don’t know. Maybe someone could tell me in the comments?

Z: Z is for zebra. I painted my desk in my room with zebra stripes. It looks very scary. Oh come on I got to the end of the list! You should be praised for doing the same!

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