5 Questions

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More questions can be asked or you can ask me to set you five.

1. How did you go about quitting smoking?

I was never really addicted. It was something I got into as part of extra curricular activies of  . So really smoking was just the secondary thing to actually getting stoned. I would only ever smoke normal cigs on a night out, or if I was feeling particularly stressed at work. I was never the type to wake up in the morning and be needing to smoke. I also guess it helps I smoked rollies. It requires that effort to make the damned thing and then once you have you wonder why you did. Quitting was really because Sam wanted me to and that I really wasn't addicited and so I shouldn't get addicted if I wanted to be in good health. Also what with my thesis submission looming and other commitments it was the best thing to do while cutting down smoking in general (smoking to get stoned is more fun that just smoking, but getting stoned when you need to finish your thesis is not the best situation). So it wasn't that difficult. I was never an addict, just a social smoker.

2. Have you ever dyed your pubic hair?

Nope. Would I? No. I mean whats the point. I can only think that if it has ever gained a colour it would have been when showering to rinse out the hair dye on my head.

3. Would you ever want to become a famous professor in your field?

Fame is gonna be hard in my field unless I do something revolutionary. That's unlikely. Only physicists do that type of thing to chemistry. No I hope to famous in a very minor way, as in my papers get cited a lot and I get asked to talk about my work.

4. Would you ever grow facial hair?

I am lucky that I really don't have to be that tidy looking for my work, so I only really shave twice a week. That means I have a near constant stubble. But would I have a beard or something else. Not right now. But I have considered the goatee for the future when I feel I am the age where I can sport such a thing.

5. If you could play a character in a movie, who would it be?

Me of course! No really this is a hard question to answer. I guess I like either the completely insane characters (Joker, Patrick Bateman, Rorschach, Magneto) and more epic characters (Wolverine, Neo, Thomas in The Foutain). If I was to choose something that isn't a movie and to play a character from it I would have to choose Severian from the Book of the New Sun. It would make an epic, crazy scifi/fantasy film.

5 Things

OK so glittersavvy 's friend thedinster gave me 5 things that she associates with me that I have to elaborate on.

The rules are such - comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects I associate with you. Then, post this in your journal and elaborate on the subjects given.

I got given Anime hair, science, cheeky grin, sci-fi, guyliner.



Anime Hair: Right well I have had spikey hair since my second year of uni, just before I started working for Games Workshop. So I spiked it up and it grew, and gained the style that it has now. However to begin with it is my normal, boring, dark brown hair. Then before Xmas that year (was it 2002) it was bleached and it was from then on that it went through the combinations of colours. It has been bleached, black, normal brown, dark red, bleached, dark red again, bleached, black and now bleached again. Of course when it has been dark I have grown the angled sideburns ala Wolverine style. As a results I have gained the monikas of Wolverine, Weapon X, Manga Kris, Anime Kris, Cloud, Spikey Kris etc. I do really like my hair like this. It is far more fun, interesting, and I am comfortable this way. However, I do find it can attract too much attention as if it is some supernatural, unobtainable, essence (when really it is just bleach, cut and gunk... easy!). What I have learn't is that much easier to deal with, and looks nicer, if it is bleached (it sticks up easier and doesn't look greasy).

Science: Well this is what I do, 'Science', that mysterious field where geeks swan around in white lab coats and lab specs, blowing shit up and mutating hamsters into gigantic beasts of mass destruction. That or playing Warcraft and generally wanking off because we can't get girlfriends. No actually I am a theoretical chemist. What does that mean I hear you cry? I use and design programs to perform computer simulations of molecules and reactions. This previously has been of water, amino acids and atomic ions in water. Now I work on the simulation of Copper containing proteins. Where did this all start? I guess in part my dream of being a scientist of some sort, a dream fueled by books on spacecraft, planets, dinosaurs, and science fiction in the form of comics and novels, lego and transformers. Science is sort of in the blood for me since my mother is a pharmacist and my dad is a retired electrician. Of course the choice of being a chemist wasn't set in stone until I got to sixth form when I realised that there was a middle ground between physics, chemistry and history and tried to balance all these things, eventually dropping history and taking maths instead (I had thought of being a archaeologist but doing carbon dating etc). From then on the rest is pretty well known as I found the course at UMIST that allowed me to still be rooted in physics.

Cheeky Grin: Do I have one of these? I honestly have trouble smiling for the camera. I either have a thin little smile or a wide, sliced from ear to ear, grin. glittersavvy says I look a bit like Jack Nicholson because of it. I really do smile normally though, but I just can't stage my smile for the camera, it just becomes this flash of teeth that scares people. It may also be because I don't like showing off my teeth. I miss two upper incisors meaning that my canines have been brought forward to give me a bite. Thus I consider my teeth a bit ugly and strange. It makes me look half like a vampire. But is it cheeky??? No I just think I am cheeky and a plain bastard who has an evil sense of humour!

Sci-Fi: Well based upon what I said about 'Science' I have made a start on Sci-Fi. So you already know that I was into science from an early age. I owned transformers, he-man, lego, technic, and was obssessed with mythology from about the age of 8. Star Wars, Star Trek, all of it. It's hard to say what single things stand out for me? I was into anime back when there were only 4 channels and channel 4 was showing Guyver and Oedo 808 late night before my parents got Sky. I also was introduced to wargaming by a friend when I was 12. Warhammer 40000 of course! The first army I got was an Eldar (think space elves) for the game Epic (this is the really tiny men where you can represent thousands of men and massive engines of war at a time). Then I got Spyrer hunters for the game Necromunda (scifi gang battles), Tyranids (evil bug eyed aracnid like monsters with bio weaponary) for Warhammer 40000, Chaos warriors for Warhammer fantasy and Empire for Warmaster. Of course later, at uni, I worked for Games Workshop so I have played a number of different wargames and used a number of armies and read a lot of books and background material on the games. As a result of this hobby I have also got into playing CCGs like Magic the Gathering (though not anymore) and of course table top roleplay games (think warcraft but with no computers and actual social skills). I began with DnD and then went on to run Star Wars and lots and lots of White Wolf games (eg Vampire the Masquerade etc... bloody goth!). I guess my favourite scifi tv series are Babylon 5, Star Trek DS9, Supernatural, Moonlight, Stargate SG1 and I hate to say, Smallville. Films I tend to go for Dune, Event Horizon, Transformers, Ninja Scoll, Casshern, Sunlight and the Fountain. Books, The Book of the New Sun, Neverwhere, Neuromancer, Chung Kuo.

As you can see Sci-fi is in everything for me. I just can't remove it from my life, it is too entwined with my life and maybe my job. I really like how my new supevisor is also a scifi lover. Hurrah! I just lent him the sequel to the Book of the New Sun, The Urth of the New Sun.

Guyliner: I first started wearing it went I went to Stacey's birthday party, but I got enough compliments from friends, and plenty form my at the time new girlfriend, glittersavvy , that it has become a common practice for me to wear it when I go out to a club. I just tend to wear any form of makeup for clubs, and fortunately glittersavvy is well skilled in the application of it to my face. This also means I wear MAC as that is what glittersavvy  has in her collection.