I am geeky, indecisive, and friendly.
My Self-Summary
Okay, so please don't be put off by those three adjectives at the
top. I just find it impossible to summarize myself in three words.
Which probably means I should have chosen "difficult" or "annoying"
for at least one of the above...
Now in German
Laßt euch nicht von den drei Adjektiven irritieren. Es fällt mir
irgendwie schwer, mich in drei Worten zu beschreiben. Harte Schale,
weicher Kern, wäre vielleicht eine passende Beschreibung.
Now in French
Ca fait vraiment longtemps que je n'ai pas parlé en francais, alors
excusez-moi, si je fais des fautes...
Now in Italian
Ciao! Ho fatto solo un anno d'italiano, allora scusate se ci sono
troppi errori nella mia descrizione...
What I’m doing with my life
I'm currently doing an MA in Shakespeare Studies - and yes, I
realise this statement will probably send most people running for
the hills - but hey, I'm a geek and proud of it ;-)
I’m really good at
Well, I grew up bilingual in Germany, and I've always been
interested in languages, so I guess that's something I'm good at.
(Apart from Latin. Ugh! Could never get to grips with it.)
The first things people usually notice about me
My incredibly inept efforts to conceal my geekiness?
Other than that, perhaps my 'Arts and Humanities' glasses (I have a
whole theory about subjects and glasses. It's complicated...).
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
Books: over the past year I've managed to read the complete works
of Shakespeare (some of them voluntarily). Apart from that...
Virginia
Woolf,
Maggie O'Farrell,
George Eliot, Notes on
a Scandal, Middlesex,
The Hours, The Remains of the Day, The
Reader, and many more.
Movies: Paradise Road, The Hours, anything with
Jodie Foster in it (although
she's been choosing some appallingly bad scripts lately), Forrest
Gump, The Reader...
Music: a wider variety. I'll try anything once, and am always
grateful for new suggestions, as I quickly get bored with my itunes
library.
Food: is great, in general. Especially anything involving potatoes.
The six things I could never do without
- music / my ipod
- great friends
- my family
- internet access
- books, or a pen and paper
- my hair straighteners (although that makes me sound incredibly
vain. It's more a question of chaos management, really...)
I spend a lot of time thinking about
Whatever essay I'm supposed to be writing.
My friends, and anything that may be happening in their
lives.
What the German/French/Italian/English word for something is (I
still experience the occasional "foreign moment").
What to eat next :-)
On a typical Friday night I am
...either at the pub, or over at a friend's house watching great
films or crap TV - whichever we're in the mood for.
You should message me if
My profile hasn't scared you away, and you might actually be
interested in getting to know me - despite the inherent geekiness
and my compulsive use of smileys :-)