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About Me

i'm me
i’m impulsive, talkative, affectionate, complicated, vindictive, quixotic, distractible, intense, pugnacious, cynical, argumentative, vehement, precocious, moody, impetuous, disconcerting, patronizing, judgmental, incogitant, astute, enigmatic, obnoxious, inquisitive, supercilious, occasionally endearing, and all together too much to handle

i spend most of my time in my favourite hole-in-the-wall cafe in a back alley writing about the world in a purple book

i have a vocabulary fetish

a fetish also, for piercings; i have lots, 22 to be exact

i live for the moments in life that make me feel the same way i do when i listen to tom waits

i'm not short, but am perceived to be

reverse psychology is required to get me to do anything

i go to uni

last year i went to rmit...i was studying marketing there...i do not want to be a marketer

now i go to monash...i'm studying arts there

i plan to spend the year reading poetry and books about the renaissance

i heart uni...it gives me an excuse to buy stationary

if anyone, throughout the course of my entire life, ever uses the word ‘beatnik’ to describe me, i will die happy

i have a really poor excuse for a signature; it’s just me writing my name
for this reason, i can never be famous

i experience de ja vu far more often than is normal; i attribute it to a possible temporal lobe dysfunction

i find that when I’m overtired, i reach this great point of delirium wherein my vocabulary is phenomenally impressive

i have proclaimed my love for another on the back of a cocktail bar coaster

when playing a word association game once, i was asked what animal i would be hypothetically if i could be any animal in the world…and without thinking, my response (for some reason) was ‘a puffin’

i love perfume, and constantly enquire as to what scent people are wearing when i hug them

i steal epicure out of the nearest copy of the age every tuesday

i wear my hair in chopsticks, and pens, and paintbrushes, and knitting needles…anything long and pointy, really

i touch things i shouldn’t…my curiosity is ungovernable

i have a kitten named cleo...she is perfection in kitten form

jeff buckley’s ‘twelfth of never’ will never cease to send chills through my body

i like the way kiwifruit skin feels against the roof of my mouth

one one occasion, i was chased by a goose

and on more than one occasion, i have slipped over on flowers

my favourite number is three

i think that being a florist would be a cool occupation…i thought that before, and now after, i found out the freudian interpretation of such a desire

i know lots of simpsons quotes...i find them useful

there will be no panicking! at my disco

although there may be cake
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i heart:
art
(most kinds)

music
(most kinds)

food

wine
from wine glasses/tumblers/goblets/glass slippers/bottles in brown paper bags

coffee
(drinking & making it)

ladybugs

kittens
(inordinately)

stumbling across songs that perfectly match whatever mood i’m in

wearing black turtlenecks
like a beatnik poet from 1950’s Soho

the word ‘bunny’

the mix CDs i made when i was 16, and how perfectly they encapsulate how lame i was when i made them

my old school diaries
(for the same reason)

albino pygmy marmosets

hearing unintelligent people debate politics

having popcorn and a comfy seat to do the aforementioned

the beach at night

kisses

snuggling

people who can appear to be very knowledgeable about wine as long as they are in the company of people who know nothing about wine

muffins
some people prefer cupcakes; i, for one, care less for them

things that are purple

doonas

my girls; jenna, emma, hannah & danni

shoelaces

writing

big old black Mustangs

hand-pressed paper

the sign language sign for ‘turtle’

the smell of dry cleaning

the word ‘disco’

memories of having hilsley fever! with my girls

doing the happy dance and the hamburger dance

the tweedle bugs from sesame street

holding hands

treating things that are not optional like they are

scarves
the knitted kind...and the felted kind...and especially the silk kind

my glasses which i need sometimes because i am short-sighted

drinking red wine in bed

procrastination

the smell of toast

things that are shiny

the word ‘munch’

faux eyelashes

vanilla vodka

brooding chickens that snuggle into themselves and say 'wraaa'

shoes…most kinds

italian white hot chocolate from max brenner
because they taste amazing, and because they come in what's called a 'hug mug' which have bunnies painted on them

beer…songs about beer..anything beer-related

kumquat marmalade

french braids

sleep

gloves
the fingerless kind…and the…finger-ed kind

butterfly kisses

anything to do with lego

candle light

icecream…gelato…anything frozen-dessert-related

photography...especially black and white photography

new undies

red nail polish
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i heart people who:
play with my hair

cause my heartrate to increase

have something of interest to say

get excited about mundane things

love kittens…because i love kittens

teach me things

laugh at me

admit they like lame stuff

are intuitive

are good snugglers

have pretty eyes

tickle my back

drink tea

love winter

talk about books they have read

are artistic

like pancakes

heart me back
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i don't heart:
the word 'c**t'

when people try telling me that my tattoo is slightly off centre; it isn’t, the design is just not entirely semetrical

the colour yellow

clowns

bob dylan

being in environments which are eerily artificially heated/cooled

faux tan

when songs you love get attached to people you grow to hate and are consequently ruined

the sound of people masticating

people who use the words ‘horny’ and ‘randy’

burning my tongue on hot stuff...like coffee...or max brenner hot chocolate

when the hot water runs out

people who growl suggestively

being pushed…its just not nice

when my ipod dies

wasps…and bees
(honey bees/killer bees/working bees)

smelling bad smells
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:


art clokey (gumby's creator)
whomever decided that chicken-flavoured things should always come in green packets (chickens arent green)
cedric bixler-zavala and omar rodriguez-lopez aka the mars volta (so i can say 'high five on having a hyphenated name!' to both of them)

i know a few things, one of them being:
you don't choose who you love



To vote for me in the Zoo Weekly Real Girl Of The Year competition, go to:
http://rg08.zooweekly.com.au/ViewProfile.aspx?id=302


you havent looked at me that way in years
your watch has stopped and the pond is clear
someone turn the lights back on
i'll love you til all time is gone

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