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Alli

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About Me

I finished uni, went to Europe for a couple of months to ease myself back into normality, and now I'm working as a potato disease researcher. I enjoy it, and there are perks like free potatoes, tradey outfits for fieldwork, getting your hands on government cars, and getting to stay in motels that haven't let go of the 80s yet. Work aside, I'm pretty laidback, friendly-ish, and have plenty of time for anyone who shares my joy in achingly bad puns and useless trivia, or can help me with the crossword. I can often be found propping up the bar somewhere in a city lane, and at the moment the American in Creswick as well. I'm not a morning person, especially during winter since I have the best doona ever and an aversion to being anything but cocooned within it until the heating has worked its magic.

My Interests

Procrastination, sleep, being a beer snob, swank dinners, walking, reading, overheardinnewyork.com, cooking, horse riding (long drives while singing badly, skinny dipping, playing in sand dunes, getting covered in dirt, falling off and hurting myself in amusing ways, drinking beers around a fire, bruises I can't explain, and wearing stupid outfits that only make sense if you're on a horse), beer and sausages, skiing (recently caught the bug), lolcats, boxing-inspired fitness classes, theage.com.au, picking up other people's phrases, bad jokes.

I'd like to meet:

Blondes with very long legs and enormous breasts. Pretty much anyone, I guess - if I didn't, I'd just go to the pub with the friends I already have and not bother.

Music:

Tegan and Sara, Kanye West, Chemical Brothers, Digitalism, Midnight Juggernauts, Sneaky Sound System, Ryan Adams, Ladytron, Doves, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, AC/DC, Antony and the Johnsons, Scissor Sisters, Basement Jaxx, Bloc Party, The Bravery, Bruce Springsteen, Faithless, The Flaming Lips, garbage, The Go! Team, Gorillaz, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, The Killers, Lauryn Hill, Lovage, Modest Mouse, Jeff Buckley, Jose Gonzalez, Maximo Park, Paul Kelly, Pound System, Powderfinger, Rolling Stones, Sigur Ros, Sons & Daughters, The Waifs, Sonicanimation, Mystic, Sleater-Kinney, Missy Higgins, The Mountain Goats, The Knife, Jen Cloher & the Endless Sea, The Delays, Augie March, Clor, Franz Ferdinand, The Gossips, Gunners, Peaches, Primal Scream, Snow Patrol, Van Halen, We Are Scientists, The Zutons. That's what's on my iPod at the moment (and a few extras), but I'm always open to suggestion from anywhere.

Movies:

I need to get cable, because I'm too lazy to go to the video store (even though I finally bought a DVD player), too disorganised to go to the movies, and too impatient to deal with ad breaks on tv. So I haven't seen that much lately that I actually liked.

Television:

Scrubs, Boston Legal, The L Word, Without A Trace, CSI. I like the trashiness of NCIS, and am saddened that SVU has totally gone to shit.

Books:

A range of stuff, attempting to be a bit more cultured after too much science and not enough anything else in a long while.

Heroes:

Hmm.

My Blog

They didn't say this would happen

I think my thesis might be stressing me out a bit. Last night I dreamt that my papers turned into a giant spider and tried to kill me by biting me in the face.  I only realised what was goin...
Posted by Alli on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:55:00 PST