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Sarah

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist ~ Sigm

About Me


"I am Sarah, and I bid you welcome ..... "
OK, just to start off by saying (because I am sick of saying 'I know!' to friends and family) I don't actually look anything like that picture over there. That picture is about 18 months old, I'm drunk and I was at the Whitby Goth Weekend. So yes, I know it doesn't really look like me at all. But most of the time I am not drunk, nor am I wearing a long dark wig. But it reminds me of a good night out, so it stays. I do enjoy WGW (except for having to walk up and down steps and hills wearing a corset, which is not an easy thing to do).
Oh, and just to clear up a few ridiculous stereotypes, despite the music I listen to and the places I go out to and the books I read and the clothes I wear (big black skirts with hoops and petticoats and corsets), I don't want to kill myself under some deluded notion that death is somehow romantic, I don't worship the devil, I'm not depressed, I'm not in a cult, I don't hang around in graveyards and I don't think I'm a vampire. I'm actually a useful member of society - I teach Psychology in the local sixth form college. And I do love my job. I do something I enjoy plus I get long holidays. Excellent. Oh, and on the off chance that any of the parents of the kids I teach read this (unlikely, I know) I just want to quote from School of Rock - your kids have all really touched me, and I'm pretty sure that I have touched them. (Now let's hope I don't get sacked.)
Random things that make me me include a complete inability to keep goldfish or plants alive (except for one plant that I have had for about 3 years and is the one plant I have tried to kill because it is getting too big, but it is made of stern stuff and refuses to die), a hatred of London, a love of flying - but strangely, a fear of heights - and a slight obsession with the number 5. I also have the bad habit of looking up any ache or pain I get on Google and then deciding that I have some terrible illness.
I'm also quite accident prone. I have hurt my left hand by falling upstairs and downstairs more times than I can remember. Most memorably, I once broke it on the morning OFSTED was coming in to observe me, when I got up in the dark, smacked it off the bedroom door frame, flung it up and above me in pain and hit it off the bathroom door which was behind me. I also once chipped my coccyx on a funfair ride in Belfast. If I want to impress people who are telling me about horrendous injuries they have had, I like to say that I once broke my back. And once I fell backwards out of the living room window at a party at a friend's house and landed in a rose bush. There were no broken bones that time, just dented pride and some squashed flowers. (See what I mean about being unable to keep plants alive?) Oh, and once I burnt my arse on a pair of hair straighteners.
I wish I could speak another language fluently. But I have had to come to the conclusion that there just isn't enough room in my brain for two langauges. However, I have managed to learn 'Zovem se Crvenkapica', which I believe is Croatian for 'I am called Little Red Riding Hood'. I look forward to the day that I can use that sentence.
I talk to myself a lot. In the house, in the garden, in the car, in the office - I can have whole conversations quite happily. I have also been told that I talk in my sleep. Obviously I don't know to what extent, but I do know that I once woke myself up in the middle of night saying 'button mushrooms' in quite an urgent tone of voice.
I like to think that virtually all people are good people. I'm not naive, I know that there are some evil fuckers out there, but surely the vast majority of us must have at least one good quality??
I don't believe in the idea of soulmates. I don't believe in the death penalty. I don't believe that we can be the only intelligent life in the universe, but I also don't believe that we can ever find that out for certain.
Sarah xxxxx
You scored as A Tramp. You've done it all. And twice. You make a good imitation lady but know when to take off your high heeled boots and club a man in the eye. You make an awful lot of money, but somehow it all vanishes down you gullet or up your dress.Test by www.MollyCrabapple.com

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My Interests

Reading. Computer games like The Longest Journey and Syberia. Cups of tea. (Can that count as an interest?) Going to the seaside. Going out and drinking copious amounts of vodka.
Greed: High
Gluttony: Medium
Wrath: Very High
Sloth: Very High
Envy: Medium
Lust: Medium
Pride: Low
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I'd like to meet:

God.

And Dara O'Briain, I think he would be a great person to go to the pub with.

Music:

To name a few -
The Birthday Massacre
The Faces of Sarah
Uninvited Guest
The Sisters of Mercy
Placebo
The Voices of Masada
Deathstars
Nightwish
Lacuna Coil
I think you get the picture .....

Movies:

I have to admit to a weakness for big budget disaster films like Armageddon. And anything with Johnny Depp in it, just because he is so pretty to look at.

Television:

House is by far and away the best programme on the television at the moment. Closely followed by CSI. I won't go out or even answer the phone if those 2 programmes are on.

Books:

I read a lot. I'll read pretty much anything, and I'm a fast reader. I love being transported into another world for a few hours.

Heroes:

I am obliged to put in this section that my heroes are my Mum and Dad, of course, who have never been anything but the best, most supportive parents anyone could ever hope to have.
And Beki, who I admire more than she will ever know.

My Blog

Sympathy please

As I can feel a cold coming on :( I hate colds, you feel like shit but everyone is 'oh it's only a cold'. And for all those people who have colds but claim that they have flu, just piss off, I've had...
Posted by Sarah on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:56:00 PST

Got me a new job .....

..... and I'm staying put in Stockton. I've been covering Head of Health and Social Care and I've been asked if I'll stay on doing it until the end of this year and then apply for it formally for Sept...
Posted by Sarah on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:24:00 PST

I want to poke my eyes out!!

Fucking exam papers. I have been looking round the table trying to find something that I could cause myself bodily injury on to try and get out of marking them, but unless I try and slit my wrists on ...
Posted by Sarah on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:25:00 PST

New job .... do or or don't I apply??

Am in a quandry. After being told by my principal that in terms of career progression I should be brushing up my CV and looking for a new job, I have found one that I would maybe like to apply fo...
Posted by Sarah on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:57:00 PST

Pleasant!

Just had a massive nosebleed everywhere!
Posted by Sarah on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:07:00 PST

Need another holiday, please

God, still don't seem to have recovered from the holiday season. I cannot wait until Saturday as it will be the first day in a long time when I will be able to just sleep in as long as I want. Infact,...
Posted by Sarah on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:05:00 PST

Citalopram

Been prescribed this drug today for anxiety. However, having read all the side effects, I am now too stressed about taking it. Oh the irony is so rich it hurts. Not sure I really want to be taking dru...
Posted by Sarah on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:54:00 PST

f******g trains

After a lovely weekend away to see my little brother on his 18th birthday it was ruined by the train journey back. It took me 6 1/2 hours!!!!! Firstly the train was 5 minutes late leaving Uttoxeter an...
Posted by Sarah on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:10:00 PST

Too much wine .....

Woke up this morning at 8.44 with a snort and a start when my phone beeped at me to discover I was still on the sofa, still dressed, contact lenses still in and with scratchy eyes with half a gla...
Posted by Sarah on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:08:00 PST

Feeling very virtuous

Have just set up to sponsor a child in Bangladesh with Action Aid. Worthy cause, people - www.actionaid.org.uk And I have just started getting organic fruit and veg delivered from local farms. And I h...
Posted by Sarah on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:04:00 PST