I'm contradictory. Basically shy in social situations, I have a job that requires me to stand in front of 28 almost-adolescent children all day and keep them entertained while managing to get them to learn! Hm. I'm over-sensitive, although not likely to blow things out of proportion; I don't like watching seriously bad things on the news because they make me pysically sick and haunt me for a long time afterwards. I also have an over-active imagination when it comes to scary things. I can be extremely silly. I've always been responsible, thoughtful and considerate - so I'm no different now that I'm an adult - but I still love being childish and I still love watching and reading things aimed at children. I love genuinely funny things, not so much toilet humour. I love music and can somewhat play the piano, recorder and sing. I love to write but am very undisciplined. My mind jumps all over the place, therefore organisation is not my strong point. I am very introspective and love to think about my personality, my motivation and compare it to others. I'm interested in and open-minded about many kinds of spirituality and the occult, but I'm also reasonably skeptical. I'm creative and like to have little projects such as web site, jewellery making or running a choir at my school. (Edited after proof-reading my own summary:) I dislike blatantly, ignorant or careless grammar/spelling/punctuation.

Primary teaching, with the intention of one day actually finishing writing the many novel ideas that fill my mind, quitting my teaching job and living rich on my novels. Well, we've all got to have an aim, don't we? *grins*

Good at lots of things, not "really good" at very much. Probably at imagining and being creative, although my skills don't always live up to my ideas. I like to think I'm good at listening to and sympathising with people, encouraging them and making them feel good about themselves.

(a) In no particular order: Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, Robert Jordan, J.K. Rowling, Victoria Holt, Georgette Heyer, Helen Fielding, Terry Pratchett, Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. M. Montgomery, Frances Hodgson-Burnett, Melanie Rawn, Louise Cooper, Katherine Kerr, Roald Dahl, C.S. Lewis, Judy Blume, Sara Douglass. (b) Also in no particular order: Labyrinth, Bend It Like Beckham, Mary Poppins, Mulan, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Harry Potter films, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Meet Me In St Louis, The Parent Trap (with Dennis Quaid,Natasha Richardson & Lindsay Lohan). (c) In no particular order: The Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald, Coldplay, U2, Bon Jovi, The Corrs, Tchaikovsky, Gilbert & Sullivan, Mendelssohn, Evanescence, John Farnham, (some) Madonna, (some) Janet Jackson, Jet, The Superjesus, Enya, Andrew-Lloydd Webber, musicals, Disney, MatchboxTwenty, Bic Runga, Tripod (d) Not many: roasts (esp. chicken, lamb & potatoes), chips, take away like McDonalds and KFC, chocolate, ice cream, cake, chocolate biscuits, marinades, popcorn.

(Not including obvious things like family, food, love, shelter, eyesight etc.) Music, my piano, writing, the internet/my computer, books, humour.

Actually, that's not strictly true. I could do without the computer and without books, even without the piano. I can't do without music, without being able to communicate through writing and without humour/comedy. I would be miserable without those other things, but I could do without them.

Songs, my health, my personality, my teaching ability, things I'm procrastinating over,

Happily curled up in front of the TV, reading or doing puzzles. Please note, this is my choice. I am not a party kind of girl. I relish my home time.

Um...never had anything vaguely approaching a romance. It'd be nice, but I'm not particularly looking for it. Disturbs the equilibrium, doesn't it, and I like my equilibrium. Once I've been properly in love or close to somebody, I'll start to miss it if it doesn't work out. I'll know what I'm missing. Right now, I don't know, so I don't miss it. That was rambly.

Erm. You're sincere, not clingy, you understand that I may be in an introverted mood.