I don't smoke and I don't eat meat or really much of anything else... I don't drink anything but water and vegetable juice. I do curse sometimes, but never in a language the other person can relate to...
I've lived in: Algiers very briefly, Brunswick (Georgia), Blue Springs (Missouri), New York City, Glen Cove (Long Island), Limerick (Ireland) and Bath and Bournemouth (U.K.). I've visited many other cities and countries. I came back home when my mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, to care for her and my dad. She died on Jan.22nd 2006. I live in my parents's house in Spain
I studied a few things, but what I like has to do most with English literature and language, and I have worked as a translator or teacher most of my life, but now I'm looking at different things for the future.
I had really extreme anorexia for a long time, since I was age 9, so I really don't want to go back to that. Don't do it, really. Not pretty. Scary.
Tattoos? One evil-looking pixie, called Síofra (Sprite , changelling or also a precocious child in Irish) on my left arm. I don't really like it now, but I was young and foolish when I got it, and what I wouldn't do is spend a bunch of money to have it removed. I like being consequent with my actions whenever possible... Besides, when I get in trouble, I can always blame the evil pixie... I had my nose pierced ages ago, when I had purple hair, but I grew out of both, and I pulled out the piercing.
Superpowers: I got past-life regression hypnosis once when I was about 6 years old, by a friend of my mother's who owned a yoga school I used to go to. He wouldn't tell me what happened, but he said he could tell my soul was very old, for what it's worth...
When I'm in hospital I seem to be able to tell what ails people around me. Many times, I've had the chance to speak to these people and they have confirmed what I initially thought.
I like: Children stare at me all the time, and I love it, because they do it in a non-judgemental type of way, and they even seem to like me. Grown-ups also stare, which bugs me more, and Matt and I have come up with this little game: we pass a group of people, we count to 5 and turn around suddenly. We ALWAYS catch them pointing and staring -their faces are priceless- and then we just wave and keep walking.
Also my hair is now almost reaching the back of my knees, but I braid it and put it up when I go out.
I tend to dress in black, but my clothes are more or less normal, so I don't really know why they do it, but I..m sort of used to it now.
How evil are you?
I like Vampires (and fairies actually)for the whole aesthetics of the "myth", but I do believe in psychic vampires, people who unconsciously or not, make you feel sapped of energy when you are near them: Jehova's Witnesses, door-to-door salespeople, my adoptive mother's sister Charo the Mega-Bitch...