About Em
I have an old blog that goes back to March this 2006, but decided to start this one to document a new stage of my running journey. The old one can be found here
My earliest memory is…Making a plaster plaque in Kinder with my handprint in it and making a big mess painting it
At school I…Loved my grade 2 teacher who played guitar and let us watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in class
My first relationship was…with the library card my mum got me when I was young because I loved reading so much she couldn’t afford to keep me in books
I wish I’d never worn…pale blue bubble gum jeans and RaRa skirts (not together)
My mother always told me…to treat others how I would like to be treated myself
I wish I had…have taken a year to travel before I started Uni, 18 is too young, you need some living behind you to make the most of tertiary education
I wish I hadn’t…have waited until I was 32 to get serious about running
My most humiliating moment was…I can’t honestly say I have had one, perhaps and example of a life lived with too much caution
My happiest moment was…participating in my first half marathon, the sense of achieving something special was amazing, probably so trivial for so many others but I felt like I had conquered the world and no one can take that away from me
My last meal would be…depends on the circumstances but to avoid the tedium of taking the questions too literally I’ll say either a Vegetable Tagine or Wild Mushroom Risotto with my brother’s Sticky Date Pudding for desert
I’m very bad at…singing, yet I still insist on doing it also being told “No, you can’t do that”
When I was a child I wanted to…be an Archaeologist
The book that changed my life is…Alice in Wonderland. I still re-read it every couple of years
It’s not fashionable but I love…when Eye of the Tiger come on my iPod when I am running, but only when I am running AND to make matters worse I sing out loud. Bang goes my Indie Music cred!
Friends say I am…off my tree
The music I’d like played at my funeral is…not something I have put any thought into, Jeff Buckley’s version of Hallelujah perhaps or Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, ultimately I don’t really care, I’ll be dead after all
If only I could…run a sub 20 minute 5Km
The hardest thing I’ve ever done was…accept a role in the school play when I was in year 7, especially as it involved kissing a boy, I was painfully shy (YES ME)
The last big belly laugh I had was…was when I suggested embedding my cat In the fresh concrete of my newly repaired driveway to deter local kids from writing their names In it. OK, you had to be there and I have a sick sense of humour
What I don’t find amusing… is Ignorance
I’m always being asked…you ran how far today?
Cat or Dog? Cat, Dogs are too needy
If I wasn’t me I’d like to be…someone who can sing. I wouldn’t want to be another person though, who I am is just fine thanks
If I were a car I’d be…my old 1976 Volvo (my first car), sturdy, not too fast but gets there in the end and doesn’t give up
I often wonder…what the hell is going on
