Surmising yourself is never easy, but this is my attempt: I'm currently studying conflict at university, I'm an avid reader of literature as well as non-fiction (which is quite useful as I'm essentially doing a history degree).

I'm currently studying at university and working part-time in a coffee shop, whilst spending as much of my free time reading books and playing pen and paper role-playing games with my friends as possible.

Reading fast and taking it all in (I'm no skim-reader), it's an ability I've developed over time, but I like to think that my mother's extraordinary reading speed helped me along on a genetic level.

I'm currently reading Expecting Someone Taller by Tom Holt, and the last few books I've finished are:

- Mort by Terry Pratchett
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
- Ask the Dust by John Fante
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Movies: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Gran Torino, Layer Cake, Lucky Number Slevin, Pulp Fiction, Skyfall, Taken, Up in the Air, V for Vendetta.

Shows: Black Books, Breaking Bad, Californication, Community, Cougar Town, Lie to Me, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, QI, Warehouse 13.

Music: David Bowie, Disturbed, Garbage, Fatboy Slim, Jamiroquai, Korn, Nephew, Nine Inch Nails, Queen, Radiohead, Rammstein, Rollins Band.

I could never do without a good book to read, or without the prospect of travel.

Most likely I'll be either at home reading or at a friend's house playing tabletop role-playing games.

I'm short-sighted and should probably wear glasses, but I never do. Not exactly private but it's something that you wouldn't know otherwise.

You want to talk to someone about books, movies, politics or anything else interesting. Also if you think I'm attractive, but that really goes without saying.