User Profile

BASICS: 25 year old female, married, no children, resident in the UK. In possession of all four limbs and own teeth.

FAVOURITE MUSIC: Bauhaus, Alice in Chains, The Pixies, Nirvana, Radiohead, Sisters of Mercy, The Smiths, Nine Inch Nails, Nick Cave, Smashing Pumpkins, Bikini Kill, Franz Ferdinand, Hole, The Cure, Soundgarden, Elliott Smith, The Jesus Lizard, Morrissey, Chopin, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

FAVOURITE LITERATURE: Fydor Dostoyevsky, Charlotte & Anne Brontë, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Franz Kafka, Graham Greene, Milan Kundera, Leo Tolstoy, John Bunyan, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, John Steinbeck, Sylvia Plath, George Orwell, Robert Tressell, Patrick Süskind, Albert Camus, William Burroughs.

ACADEMIC PREFERENCES: Latin, New Testament Greek, human biology, chemistry, history (esp. Soviet and European socio-economic), music theory, Welsh language, philosophy, theology, etc.

FAVOURITE SPORTS: Distance swimming, sailing, tennis, show-jumping, dressage, cycling.

FAVOURITE WORDS: Glockenspiel, mendacious, pulmonary, delphinium, taphephobia, prevaricate, maudlin, salubrious, feckless, reticulum, munificence, vicissitude, recalcitrant, cosseted, schadenfreude, palliative, ascetic, kafuffle.

OTHER STUFF: Deciduous trees, sleeping, navel-gazing, dissection kits, William Bouguereau, bubble-wrap, lemon curd, Francis Bacon (the artist, not the statesman), writing, self-induced vomiting, the smell of paraffin, prayer, growing vegetables, Fox's Glacier Mints, playing the guitar, lights under water, painting, E minor chords and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

GENERAL DISLIKES: People (all of them, to some degree), cats, Cadbury Crème Eggs, incorrect use of apostrophes, liquorice, clean-cut "punk" boy bands, estuary English, tabloid journalism, marmite, Jo Wiley, bigotry, polyester, alcohol, Lillian Archer's laugh, ignorance, Only Fools And Horses, myself, fluorescent strip lighting, David Hockney paintings, capitalism, and many other things besides...