About me... I'm pretty shy at first and tend to listen more than I talk, unless you get me onto subjects I'm really passionate about and then I will talk your ear off. But then I'll pick your ear up off the floor, dust it off and apologise so you'll probably be all right.

I'm in a transitional period of life at the moment and not really sure where I'm going to end up, but the immediate plan is to move to Seoul in South Korea this summer to teach ESL. After that, I'd love to get back into education, as I dropped out of a Masters programme due to an illness that swallowed up most of my mid and late twenties and has only just spit me out again. I've learned that there isn't much point in planning too far ahead, so we shall see!

Also, I'm actually more asexual than anything else, but that isn't an option here and I lean more towards girls romantically as a rule. Not that this should make any difference, really, as I'm just looking for friendship right now, but I've learned it's better to be upfront with this anyway.

I'm hoping to move to Seoul in South Korea this summer to teach ESL for a year or two.

But right now I'm mostly spend my time divided between trying to learn Korean and obsessing over Les Miserables, the latter of which involves a lot of having to put the book to one side and flinging myself to the ground because of all my feelings. Damn you, Victor Hugo!

Geeking out over special features on DVDs. Making fajitas. Remembering people's names. Blowing up toasters and microwaves (two of each so far...). Talking to animals, especially dogs. Selling myself short.

I don't know... my hair? Or that I'm probably staring off into the distance intsead of paying attention to what's happening in front of me.

Books: Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro), In the Lake of the Woods (Tim O'Brien), Strangers in Paradise (Terry Moore), Fred and Edie (Jill Dawson), Watership Down (Richard Adams), Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen), The Regeneration Trilogy (Pat Barker), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Les Miserables (Victor Hugo).

Movies: Lord of the Rings, Aliens, Pan's Labyrinth, Blade Runner, The Avengers, Hanna, Sucker Punch, Les Miserables, Muppet's Christmas Carol, The Hobbit, Resident Evil series, Bandidas, Frida, Ice Age series, Pride and Prejudice, Jennifer's Body, Let the Right One In, The Hunger Games, The Hurt Locker.

Shows: Father Ted, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, Futurama, Animal Cops, Dollhouse, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Golden Girls, Spaced.

Music: Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Sugababes, Laura Marling, Taylor Swift (I can hear you judging me from here...), Bjork, Basement Jaxx, Rihanna, Britney Spears, Dolly Parton, Tinie Tempah, Grimes, Robyn.

Food: fajitas, scones, chocolate, pretty much any kind of fruit except tomatoes (the bastard step child of the fruit family), chicken sandwiches.

Friends (actual real people friends, not the old tv show - that can go to Hell)
My laptop
Rekorderlig Strawberry and Lime cider (nectar of the gods)
Notebook and pencil (shh, it counts as one thing)
Books
Moisturiser

What superpowers I would most like to have.
Fluffy dogs and how much sadder my life is for not having one.
Whether Jurassic Park could really happen.
Why the Black Widow doesn't have her own movie yet.
Feminism and how inequality in our society is reflected by the media.

Well, this past Friday night I drank cider and watched an old episode of Poirot on television. Ah, the glamour.

No.

You want a new internet friend to chat with about movies and books and life in general. Or if you have any experience teaching in South Korea and would be up for passing on any handy hints.