All memed out - feline edition

7 THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE

• Finish my thesis
• Learn to sing
• Get my French up to the point where I can read Volatire, Montesquieu and Condorcet in the original language, then do so
• Drive across America
• Play in the main event at the World Series of Poker
• Get elected to public office
• Go to my childrens' weddings and my grandchildrens' christenings

7 THINGS I CANNOT DO

• Suffer fools gladly
• Feel your pain, unless I caused it
• Play any sport involving co-ordination
• Keep in touch with old friends as often as they deserve
• Read on trains with greater than 80% recall
• Understand Christians, despite having spent a term studying theology as part of history A-level
• Work hard without the pressure of deadlines

7 THINGS THAT ATTRACT ME TO LONDON

• Mummy
• Daddy
• My sister
• My friends
• Fond memories of a well-spent youth
• Every period in history and every country in the world is there to see if you look for it
• Knowing that you are in the world's greatest city

THINGS I OFTEN SAY

• You are looking at the world as it should be, not as it is
• My soul is only for sale to the highest bidder
• Yes, that's right, and there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq too(to someone making implausible factual claims in political debate)
• Dogs are evil and should be put down at birth
• Awwwwwwwwwww (about cats)
• Can I get back to you about that?
• Excuse me

7 BOOKS THAT I LOVE

• The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
• The Ender Saga - Orson Scott Card
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
• August 1914- Barbara Tuchman
• The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• Great Liberal Speeches - ed. Duncan Brack & Tony Little
• Parliament of Whores - P.J. O'Rourke

7 MOVIES I WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN

• Casablanca
• Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• The Snatch
• Shrek
• Any Bond movie starring Sean Connery
• Men in Black

7 PEOPLE I WANT TO JOIN IN TOO

I'm going to cheat on this one - Liberal England's tag was to both of us together, so there should only be 7 outgoing tags. To replace the one Femme-de-R passed to me, I tag Will Howells