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Strawberry Shortcake

kittiecattie

About Me

Optimist Primus.
I am Cat, I like to knit scarves and read books, watch movies or go out dancing with a nice dress on.
Actually, I like to do anything with a nice dress on.
I'm studying Medical Science at Edinburgh, I love the city, the thrift shops, the vinyl shop down the street (because it's cool), the quiet parks dotted in between big buildings, The Filmhouse and Cameo, one jazz bar in particular, and, who can forget, the lovely people (read a little sarcasm into that if you will).
"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which." (Douglas Adams) - Doesn't this describe us all a bit?
Back home, I have a lovely tabby cat and an equally lovely Mum who puts up with my clothes-washing demands.
I'm in love with New York.
My Grandma taught me to appreciate the small pleasures of life, she was my best friend and I miss her every day.

My Interests

I thoroughly enjoy:
^ Reading
^ Music
^ Movies
^ Gigs
^ Seeing my friends
^ Photography and Scrapbooks
^ The cold side of the pillow
^ Philosophy
^ Talking
^ Satin and Silk
^ Greenpeace
^ Playing violins and pianos
^ Jazz bars
^ Ceilidhs
^ Belly Dancing
^ Alphabetising

I'd like to meet:


Interesting people who think outside themselves, preferably smiley, with a decent head on their shoulders. Trustworthy and equally able to trust, with patience and sensitivity.
I have a huge soft spot for romantics .

Music:



It's a big mish-mash of classical, jazz, rock, funk, indie, punk, ambient and electro. Bands and artists-wise, my top picks are:

Aerosmith
Beck
Ben Folds
Billie Holiday
Bob Dylan
Bright Eyes
Burt Bacharach
Carole King
Duke Ellington
Echo & the Bunnymen
Editors
Ella Fitzgerald
Faithless
Fleetwood Mac
Guillemots
Jack Johnson
Jacques Loussier
John Coltrane
Kinks
LCD Soundsystem
Led Zeppelin
Less Than Jake
Louis Armstrong
Moby
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Drake
Oceansize
Oscar Peterson
Ramones
Ray Charles
Reel Big Fish
Refused
Rilo Kiley
Rise Against
Róisín Murphy
Sigur Rós
Simon & Garfunkel
T.S.O.L
Tegan and Sara
VHS or Beta
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I love classical music too. My favourite composers are:

Bach
Beethoven
Bruch
Canataloube
Chopin
Copland
Debussy
George Gerswin
Mussorgsky
Puccini
Rachmaninov
Eric Satie
Saint-Saens
Sibelius
Tchaikovsky
Verdi
Vieuxtemps


Movies:

I'm a HUGE movie fan...I like most genres, except horror

An Affair to Remember
August Rush
Being John Malkovich
Billy Elliot
Blazing Saddles
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Citizen Kane
Cool Hand Luke
Donnie Darko
Fargo
Garden State
Marjorie Morningstar
North by Northwest
Stardust
Star Wars (IV, V, VI)
Secretary
Serendipity
Sleepless in Seattle
Shopgirl
Team America
The Godfather I
The Graduate
The Ice-Storm
The Longest Yard
The Pianist
The Piano
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
You’ve Got Mail

Books:

Margaret Atwood - ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
Jane Austen - {everything}
Charlotte Bronte - {everything}
Emily Bronte - ‘Wuthering Heights’
Truman Capote - ‘In Cold Blood’
Charles Dickens - {everything}
George Elliot - ‘Middlemarch’
Elizabeth Gaskell - ‘North and South’, ‘Cranford’
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of the Cholera’
John Irving - ‘The Cider House Rules’
Kazuo Ishiguro - ‘Never Let Me Go’
Henry James - ‘What Maisie Knew’
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - ‘Dangerous Liasons’
Laurie Lee - ‘Cider With Rosie’
George Orwell - {everything}
Edgar A. Poe - {everything}
Sylvia Plath - ‘Ariel’, ‘The Colossus’
John Steinbeck - {everything}
William M. Thackeray - ‘Vanity Fair’
Alice Walker - {everything}
Emile Zola - ‘Germinal’, ‘Nana’

Heroes:

Grandma, John Lennon, Annie Lennox or John Peel - legends

RIP

My Blog

The Bonnie Defeat - external blog

Now that I've finished putting my Malawi diaries up, I'm changing to an external blog. Please note the name has changed because too many people were having trouble finding it what with the odd gaelic ...
Posted by Strawberry Shortcake on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:13:00 PST

Home

Sunday 1st JulyDidn't leave much time to find our way around Gatwick, but got the flight without hitch or delay. At home now, but feeling a little odd - I've spent the last three weeks with a daily ta...
Posted by Strawberry Shortcake on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:32:00 PST

Malawi Day 19

Sunday 1st JulyI do NOT like airports. They make me sweat profusely. Lilongwe to Nairobi was long and dull; we were all sat separately and plonked all over the shop, but the guy next to me was a lovel...
Posted by Strawberry Shortcake on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:26:00 PST

Malawi Day 18

Friday 20th JuneLast full day in Malawi! I'm glad to be going home, but I will miss the warmth of Malawi, and I don't mean the temperature. It will be difficult to return to the steely-heart of Scotla...
Posted by Strawberry Shortcake on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:08:00 PST

Malawi Day 15/16/17

Tuesday 26th JuneFinally met with the minister. Had the best meal since we arrived in Malawi - everything was just&perfect. Good, clean rice, and carrots! I've never been so glad to see carrots; they ...
Posted by Strawberry Shortcake on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:01:00 PST

Malawi Day Thirteen/Fourteen

I am sitting here, back in the Mimosa Hotel in Mzuzu. Yesterday, we went to the English Church Service at Livingstonia Church. The service lasted for two hours, mostly taken up by a very long, dull se...
Posted by Strawberry Shortcake on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:16:00 PST

Malawi Day Twelve

Harrison's farm today. Harrison is an old buddy of Mackay's. He has a farm just off the plateau, in an area we hadn't seen yet. It was lovely to see; to me, he has an idyllic life of simplicity and se...
Posted by Strawberry Shortcake on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:27:00 PST

Malawi Day Nine

Today was a calmer day. We visited Livingstonia Primary School, where we sat in on a road safety lecture being given to the Standard 1 - 4 classes (primary 1 -4). Everyone was squashed into a small ha...
Posted by Strawberry Shortcake on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:36:00 PST

Malawi Day Ten/Eleven

Thursday 21st: Got up really early to go to the hospital. Jill didn't fancy coming with Will and I to the operating theatre, so she went to the maternity ward. The operating theatre was not clean, I w...
Posted by Strawberry Shortcake on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:42:00 PST

Malawi Day Eight

Focus groups ran yesterday after school, I thought they were pretty successful although I had quite a quiet group, we got through all the topics, whereas Jill and Will barely got through the first one...
Posted by Strawberry Shortcake on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:26:00 PST