About Me
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Version 2 (ish)
Hello. I’m me, pleased to meet you.
Me-the basics
I’m female (you may have guessed this). Born at the very end of the Seventies (okay not the very end, nearly the end). I live in the Middle bit of England, and would describe myself as British, or if feeling very cosmopolitan European.
My name is not Lara. Lara is a cat who graces the planet with her presence, and moults all over the blasted place. I won’t be offended though if you call me Lara (just don’t try and feed me kitty treats).
Things to Consider
- I am a real person, just as real as you.
- I do have a real life job studies, and commitments. This is not my entire world.
- You can email me, but if your email is incoherent, rude, or in a language that I can neither read nor find a translation for you’re unlikely to get a response.
- And yes I do know that I have a weird horsey grin. The boy partnered with me for maypole dancing classes at school pointed this out to me, and the rest of my class. He probably works as one of those tactful NATO negotiators or something now.
Me-Random Things
- I’ve given up making apologies for my geekiness, so we’ll get that out of the way to start with. I like steam trains. A lot. Not quite enough to spend my spare time hanging around elderly men who used to work for British Rail, but enough to not be one of the cool kids.
- I like cars too. I can’t drive them though, not legally anyway. I’m good at going backwards, and three point turns. Forwards I’m less good at. Forwards, I totalled my last driving instructor’s three day old car. The green part of me loves the idea of electric cars, the geek thinks they lack a bit of mechanical romance.
- As well as old transport I also like old cameras. Though I’m not totally loving the one that I just bought off of eBay and is now stinking my work shelf up.
- Oh and just to compound the socially incapable geeky girl image, I’m also a comic reader too.
- I’ve recently returned to studying so for the foreseeable this blog is likely to contain an intermittent level of whining about feeling a bit stupid.
- But it makes a change from my intermittent whining about other things doesn’t it?
- I don’t like stuff that takes advantage of other people’s insecurities (*ahem* homeopathy *ahem*).
- I’m an atheist, but I have no interest in converting you-just as long as you return the favour. Frankly as long as you haven’t started any wars it doesn’t remotely matter to me who, or what you believe in. Heck maybe David Hasselhoff really *is* the second coming, as long as you’re happy and hurting no-one else.
- I like vintage style dressing. Though actual vintage rarely likes me, it seems the only women who looked after their clothes were somewhere around a modern size 8 (Fifties 12-ish).
- I also like octopuses (most cephalopods are winners with me to be frank), camels, and Fresian cattle. I don’t know why. I just do.
- I’m scared of bridges (it’s much weirder and complicated than just bridges but unless you’re going walking with me you don’t really need to know); ivy on buildings and brickwork makes me feel nauseous and butterflies and bees/wasps make me very nervous.
