I'm a Welsh girl born on the 3rd June 1989. I'm currently at university studying a bachelors degree in Politics and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast. Why I chose those subjects at that location, I have no idea, I'm kind of impulsive like that. I've always been a reader and a fantasist, I blame eldest-child-syndrome, spent far too much...
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I'm a Welsh girl born on the 3rd June 1989. I'm currently at university studying a bachelors degree in Politics and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast. Why I chose those subjects at that location, I have no idea, I'm kind of impulsive like that. I've always been a reader and a fantasist, I blame eldest-child-syndrome, spent far too much time on my own making up imaginary friends (or this could be the result of watching Drop Dead Fred at way too young an age - I did have a 'friend' called Fred who looked a lot like Rik Mayall).
I like any book that draws me in, classics and modern literature, adventure, fantasy, romance, comedy. The one avenue I don't tend to tread is horror/crime fiction, my childhood was spent reading R. L. Stine so I've had my fill for a lifetime. An interesting fact about me may be that I have 8 brothers and sisters but they are all half-siblings. Don't know why that's interesting, but people normally exclaim '8?!' when they hear it.
I'm an avid watcher of films and television as well as a reader. I love British comedy - The Fast Show, Peep Show, Outnumbered, The Thick of It, The Inbetweeners (ok now I'm just listing and this will take ages). But I do like a good American comedy as well - Curb Your Enthusiasm and Arrested Development spring to mind (dislike Seinfeld though). The films I like are as eclectic as the books. Actors I admire are Marlon Brando, Audrey and Katharine Hepburn, Jack Nicholson, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy and loads of random-er British actors (like Ruth Negga). I tend to look at the cast first then watch the film, this is probably bad but oh well.
I study politics so I may as well have an opinion here. I'm a Labour supporter and probably always will be, although I respect aspects of the Liberal Democrat and Green Party mandates. I just think it would be jolly if all parties could come together and embrace one another then start working for the good of the people. I live in a dreamland and it is happy here.
My general view is that life can never be boring when there are infinite things to be learnt, experiences to have, books to read and friendships to uncover. This makes me seem a positive person, I'm nothing of the sort, more likely to be morose, pensive and sarcastic. Oh dear, I'm contradicting myself a lot and it's 4 in the morning.
I leave with a quote which seems to have summed up my life thus far and it's by Oscar Wilde which makes it automatically witty and profound.
"It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
-- Oscar Wilde
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