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Who are you and what are you doing in that handbasket?

Basically and briefly, I'm a 28-year-old British female with a livejournal.

Somewhat less briefly...

I'm 28, female and I'm British. I live with my partner ebon_bear and I'm currently in the first year of a Law and Advice Work degree at university. Before that I was a mainly housebound lump at a computer, and before that I was a Film and Psychology student.

I'm a fan of cinema, particularly horror, sci-fi, cult and westerns (don't ask about the last one, I can't explain it either), and have been since I was about seven years old. I also write sporadically. Perhaps unsurprisingly, my preferred genres for writing are horror and the like.

Other stuff... I read just about anything I can get hold of (currently I'm reading Frank Moorhouse's Satanic Killers, Neil Gaman's American Gods and Anansi Boys, Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide and Bill Hicks' Love All the People). I'm also a comic book fan, although the standard appears to be dropping in many of them of late...

I write; sometimes sporadically, sometimes not so sporadically. More often than not I write in the horror and/or 'dark urban fantasy' genres (if the latter is actually a genre), and it's entirely possible that one day I might manage to finish something and decide that it's worth trying to get it published.

I suffer from myalgic encephelomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome and shortened to CFS. I've had this for nearly three years now and, like anyone else suffering with it, I have good times and bad. Right now I'm not doing too badly, but if the journal goes un-updated for a while, I'm probably stuck in bed again, writing out endless reveiws on a jotter pad in preparation for when I can get up and do more than basic functions again.

I've suffered from clinical depression since I was fourteen. On the whole, I try not to inflict it on other people but it happens sometimes regardless. With that in mind, feel free to ignore any angsty, 'woe-is-me' entries I might make. I'll get over whatever it is in a day or so. Conversely however, it is always nice to receive sympathy/commiseration...

I'm also a MMORPG junkie, and you can usually find me playing either EVE Online, City of Heroes or Anarchy Online at the moment. Which theoretically shouldn't leave me much time for anything else, but you'd be surprised...

We also have a cat; Jelli who was a street cat living in the back alley behind our house till we met and made friends, at which point she moved in. Our other cat, Macavity, who we fell in love with after he was found abandoned in a cat carrier on our front doorstep, sadly died in July of this year, and we're still trying to get used to him not being here. It's been suggested that word has gotten around between cats that our house is a kind of feline 'Shangri-La'; alas, we have no more space so any more unexpected arrivals will be looked after only until Cats' Protection or similar can rehome them...

Finally, because it will no doubt come up somewhere, I'm a practicing Discordian witch and Servant of Bast following a Taoist philosophy. (And I have to invent an acronym for that; it's murder to type that all out every time). I operate on a 'live-and-let-live' principle here; ie. I have no problem with you if you have no problem with me. Otherwise, your right to wave your fist at me ends at the tip of my nose, or something like that.

I think that's it...

Jobs I've had in 2007:

- Customer Service Agent with Royal Mail
- Clerical Assistant at Staffordshire University
- Contractual Auditor

Jobs I've had in 2008:

- Chatline Operative

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