Bless that Zoesmom, an award and a meme in one. To claim the award, I have to list seven personality traits and nominate seven other bloggers who ZM hasn’t already nominated. That’ll be the tough part.
1. I can be readily comforted with food. Sometimes, tea, toast and marmite is all it takes to make me happy on a rainy afternoon.
2. I usually arrive early. This is because unpunctuality drives me mad, and I don’t subscribe to the ‘I’ll call when I’m on my way’ school of arrangements. Also because I overestimate how long it takes to get anywhere so that I have time to get lost on the way. It isn’t that I intend to get lost, it’s just that it happens.
3. I am completely crap at anything involving: geography, distance, directions or spatial awareness, or particularly any combination of the above. Driving is often a trial. Map reading is an arcane science.
4. I don’t do numbers, graphs, diagrams. I would rather read a couple of hundred pages than attempt to make sense of a diagram. Sciences were not my strong point at school.
5. I want what I want. If it’s not available/affordable/possible, then I lose interest. I don’t care about the compromises or substitutes.
6. I am bad at giving in to circumstances. I prefer to make circumstances give in to me. Sometimes, this is an advantage because it means I won’t give up until I’ve solved a problem, and it allows me to find new avenues of approach. Sometimes, problems really are insoluble and I still can’t stop myself from running my head against them repeatedly, usually in the early hours of the morning.
7. However critical I am of other people (which is very, because, you know, Virgo) I am always more critical of myself.
So now (rustle of envelope), the nominees:
Tales from the Reading Room (when she gets back from holiday)
I see that, in unwitting proof of #4, I have nominated eight others. I find that quite funny.
Musings from the sofa 
Many thanks for the award! I will now have to think of my own answers. I agree that good food makes life much more bearable. Sometimes even bad food will do the trick.
I am with you on #2…I like to call it “Unfashionably early.” My friends like to call it…”I just got out of the shower!!!”
Tea, toast, and marmite…sounds wonderful right about now. Oh yeah, that’s right. I live in Lancaster County. Wonder if there is a single shop around that sells marmite. And I hate the “I’ll call when I’m on the way” sort of living as well. Even worse is the, “I’ll call when I’m almost there,” which means you can’t do a bloody thing until the person arrives, even if it’s going to be hours , because you have no clue when it might be, and when they call, they might be a mere five minutes away.
Dorothy – Sometimes, bad food is exactly what the situation requires.
Di – Is there a reason why you are early? I know that I am because my father was always late and it annoyed the hell out of me.
Emily – You want marmite? I can bring some…
As far as I can see, if someone refuses to set a time and place for a meeting, then if they do call when they are ‘almost there’ and you are in the middle of something else, they have to wait for you.
I am SUCH A LAGGARD! But thank you. And I loved reading your personality traits. I’m not sure I can come up with anything nearly as interesting. xoxo
I’m back, and completely delighted to have a meme to do! Thank you so much, my friend!