8 Things
07/07/07 23:40 Filed in: Blogging
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Nonsense
Treasa asked
nicely, so here goes:
1. I have mentioned before that "Gerry O'Sullivan" is a pseudonym. The "Gerry" bit is a derivative of one of my forenames (Gerard), which may or may not be the name everyone knows me by. "O'Sullivan" is my mother-in-law's maiden name.
2. I have an unusual (real) surname. I have never met anyone, or have heard of anyone, with the same forename and surname combination as me. A Google search of my real name will only bring back results relating to me.
3. I have thought long and hard about sharing the next nugget of information.
4. I am related to Ryan Tubridy. He is a third cousin, through my paternal grandmother. I have never met him.
5. I spent a year in Alsace in the mid 90s, and as a result I now speak French with a marked Alsatian accent.
6. I have an unnatural memory for numbers. I can remember registration numbers of family cars from thirty years ago, and phone numbers of places I worked in twenty years ago, but I often have to go back and check if I have locked the front door, or turned everything off before I leave the house.
7. Even though I was raised in a strong Fianna Fáil household, I have never voted for the party.
8. My daughter was the eighteenth grandchild for my parents, and the first for my wife's. Both of my wife's sisters are pregnant at the moment with their first babies, which will also be the first grandchildren for their respective in-laws.
In keeping with my policy on bloggy memes, I will not pass it on.
1. I have mentioned before that "Gerry O'Sullivan" is a pseudonym. The "Gerry" bit is a derivative of one of my forenames (Gerard), which may or may not be the name everyone knows me by. "O'Sullivan" is my mother-in-law's maiden name.
2. I have an unusual (real) surname. I have never met anyone, or have heard of anyone, with the same forename and surname combination as me. A Google search of my real name will only bring back results relating to me.
3. I have thought long and hard about sharing the next nugget of information.
4. I am related to Ryan Tubridy. He is a third cousin, through my paternal grandmother. I have never met him.
5. I spent a year in Alsace in the mid 90s, and as a result I now speak French with a marked Alsatian accent.
6. I have an unnatural memory for numbers. I can remember registration numbers of family cars from thirty years ago, and phone numbers of places I worked in twenty years ago, but I often have to go back and check if I have locked the front door, or turned everything off before I leave the house.
7. Even though I was raised in a strong Fianna Fáil household, I have never voted for the party.
8. My daughter was the eighteenth grandchild for my parents, and the first for my wife's. Both of my wife's sisters are pregnant at the moment with their first babies, which will also be the first grandchildren for their respective in-laws.
In keeping with my policy on bloggy memes, I will not pass it on.