About me

(Apparently my age doesn't show on my profile: I'm 18.)

The short version? Young at head and heart, open-minded, curious. Aren't we all? It's hard to put anything here that's not a replication of hundreds of other profiles; you'll have to contact me if you want to get an idea of who I really am. Maybe you can help me figure that out for myself.

I'm intelligent, introspective, interesting. I study politics, English, history and psychology, and take a passionate interest in the former two, especially political theory and poetry. In turn, I like people with interests, with things that truly inspire them. People that light up, that blaze.

I take a scholarly interest in the Great Mysteries of Life such as why cheese strings taste better peeled than unpeeled, how to get my picture on the front page, and why I can't cook toast. Actually, my father once set the toaster on fire through such futile efforts so maybe it's a Rogue Gene that's slowly being diluted and three generations down a Toast Cooker of Epic Proportions shall be born of my lineage.

I adore music that falls on me "as they say love should/ like an enormous yes"; for me, VAST more than any other band captures the essence of this phrase. I've never yet been in love with anything but learning, and this world. I'd like that to change.

I like old things and acting like an overgrown child. Yesterday I said “on the morrow” without any sense of irony. My mother worries for my mental health and my boss thinks I'm marginally retarded. Occasionally this works in my favour, but most of the time I just sit in my room, clutching my exam certificates and mumbling “but I was clever once…”. It's actually a great fear of mine that someday someone will reveal to me that I'm actually highly insane and that everyone has been humouring me for the past decade.

I rewrite my profiles far too much, mainly because everything is a translation. Your idea of something is likely to be very different to mine, and language is often a flawed means of communication. It's hard trying to portray a true sense of who I am in a few lines.

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust".