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Because of course, you're dying to
know.
Basic
facts:
Her
name is Jennifer. “Jennifer” is derived from the Cornish
“Guinevere” and means, variously, ‘enchanting’, ‘fair’,
‘yielding’, ‘whitewave’, ‘white fairy’ and ‘white
spirit’. However, she has also been known to answer (sometimes rather
reluctantly) to Jen, Furry Jen, Mrs. Jenni-fwah, Mariposa, Indigo,
Asuyete, Bookworm, Bean, Beancake, Stripper, Munchkin Queen and That
Girl That Knows Lots Of Words.
She
is 20 and annoyed that she's not a teenager anymore. Her birthday is February 15th,
making her Aquarius. She finds the astrological profiles tend to be
pretty accurate but the horoscopes themselves are rather rubbish.
She
lives in Bristol, England. Sometimes she likes it there, sometimes it
gets on her nerves. It’s worth it because there’s a place called
Fishponds. Everyone’s so used to it they don’t think it’s funny.
She
likes to write. Should her scriptwriting dream not come to pass, she
intends to write a very stupid self-help book and see how many gullible
Americans set up websites to her and claim she’s changed their lives.
She
calls herself a Pagan, or a Witch. She does not require saving.
She’s
a bit strange. So she hangs around other people who are a bit strange.
She
doesn’t do hate. She has forgiven everybody. But she does have a
tendency to get righteously indignant about things.
Incidentally,
she thinks ‘indignant’ is a great word.
She
looks like this:
...on
a good day with make-up and lighting and a professional cameraman, but
don't let's dwell on that.
75
random things about me and mine
- I
study Creative Writing, which is a little pointless, really, but it
was the only way to ensure I’d actually do my homework.
- My
little brother Jamie is the funniest kid in the entire world and one
day I am going to force television executives to give him a TV show.
He’s great at doing impressions. He’s also an annoying genius
who is really going to show me up one day.
- Having
said that, I really am extremely clever. Modesty is way overrated.
- “Queen
Psychotic Fool” comes from a Skunk Anansie B-side called “King
Psychotic Size”.
- I
have collected thirty Skunk Anansie B-sides and I’m still
searching. Help would be greatly appreciated.
- Once
I saw Blondie in concert and came over all star-struck.
- Other
fabulous bands/singers: Queen, Morcheeba, Otis Redding, Sarah
McLachlan, Guns N’ Roses, Joan Jett, Sex Pistols, Muse, Smashing
Pumpkins, and the early stuff of No Doubt, Garbage, Oasis,
Stereophonics. Also Aqua and Wham! Ha.
- I
have a penchant for cheesy School Disco-type music. What? It’s
great.
- I
make great cakes. I’m learning to make them in shapes now, and so
far I’ve made a pirate ship (sails, wafer decking and everything)
for my boyfriend and a pumpkin for my brother.
- I
love Disney films, especially The Little Mermaid and The
Lion King.
- My
friend Jess is the most fun person on the planet. She just is.
- I’m
really sensitive to temperature. I can go from boiling to freezing
in five point three seconds.
- I
sing all the time. I mean constantly. You cannot shut me up. I’ve
been taking lessons for years, so it’s not too tortuous an
experience unless you spend a lot of time with me.
- I
can’t stop buying notebooks.
- My
hair reached down to my waist for about ten years, then in 2003 I
cut most of it off. It scared the crap out of everyone.
- My
boyfriend Adam is a serious nerd. Once I adjusted to the Star Trek
thing it was fine.
- I
have a six-inch scar on my right ankle from when I slipped at school
three years ago.
- They put a metal plate and eight screws in there. It's only just come out again.
- This has understandably traumatised me and I can no longer walk down slopes without undergoing a minor panic attack.
- Speaking
of school, my school made it into a list of the top 50 in the
country. It was the only one in the city to do so. It’s an
all-girls’ private school. I’m glad I’ve left because the new
headmistress is shockingly tacky (plastic flowers and billboards,
honestly. It’s supposed to be a classy establishment).
- I’m
a huge Terry Pratchett fan. I like Death and the witches.
- I
speak OK-ish Spanish and I can sing in Italian. I do a great Mozart
aria.
- When
it comes to TV, I like Little Britain, The Simpsons and
Have I Got News For You, but I haven’t got time for much else.
Except Buffy.
- I
like to pick things up, throw them down and go “eh eh ehhhh!”
- I
once played the executioner in Alice in Wonderland. I stole the axe
afterwards.
- At
my sixth form prom, I won the award for Most Likely To End Up On An
Internet Porn Site.
- Films
I love: Gremlins and Gremlins 2, Talk To Her, Y Tu Mama Tambien,
American Beauty, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Blues Brothers.
- I
really hate horror films. I cannot watch them.
- I
have a tendency to rant.
- I
have nasal schizophrenia. I smell things that aren’t there.
- Aardvarks
are the best animals ever. And “aardvark” is the best word ever.
- I’m
on a constant self-improvement scheme. It seems to be working,
albeit slowly.
- I
have a somewhat worrying tendency to name everything Fred.
- Whenever
I’m alone, I dance around. I can’t help it. I also dance along
to background music in shops.
- I
can insult people in the following languages: English, Spanish,
Italian, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Latin.
- I
read a lot of self-help books, but apart from You Can Heal Your
Life by Louise Hay, they’ve all been rubbish. I search in vain
for another good one.
- I’m
not a pessimist, but my mind insists on going through everything
that could possibly go wrong. Possibly I think that if I think
it’ll happen, it won’t. This goes against all the self-help
books, but I’m expecting a good time then I don’t tend to get
one.
- There’s
a goblin in my room. He’s stolen my electric toothbrush.
- I
am a bad influence on your children. I’ve been told so several
times.
- I
drink stupid amounts of milk.
- I
don’t have political leanings as all the parties’ policies are
rubbish. Considering voting Raving Monster Loony.
- Put
me in a cheesy club and I won’t stop dancing until three in the
morning. Call me the Duracell bunny. Actually, don’t.
- I
have a compulsion to learn things. I don’t like not understanding
what’s going on.
- I
have a theory about almost everything. Including aardvarks and
manhole covers. Just ask.
- You
can’t beat me down. I shall scratch your eyes out with my
calcium-enforced fingernails. Grrr.
- I
won silver award at both Junior and Intermediate Maths Challenge.
This was done mostly by guesswork.
- One
of my favourite books is Chocolat by Joanne Harris. I refuse
to watch the film because they’ve changed the priest to the mayor
to avoid offending anyone, and have probably taken out everything
else I loved about it too.
- One
day Adam and I are going to have two cats, called Cotton Socks and
Fuzzbomb.
- I
have trashy-bonkbuster addiction. I just can’t stop myself.
- Part
of me wants to be a fashion designer. Except I’d be rubbish at it.
- I
cry at really stupid songs that I have absolutely no reason to cry
at.
- I
don’t like the Beatles and I don’t understand why everyone finds
this so hard to comprehend. I don’t understand why people like
Dido so much either.
- The
world needs to get over posh-boy whinge rock. It’s awful stuff.
- Nor
am I a Harry Potter fan.
- I
have really nice breasts. Yeah.
- Three
years working in Sainsbury’s showed me how truly enormous my brain
is.
- I’ve
never smoked, and I don’t drink much anymore. I can get my kicks
my ownself.
- I
still like a good sugar high, mind.
- My
favourite director is Pedro Almodóvar. I am mildly obsessed. Only
mildly.
- I
watch The Simpsons way too much.
- I
really hate bad spelling and grammar. I mean I really can’t stand
it.
- Funny
people: Paul Merton, Matt Lucas, Ross Noble, Omid Djalili, Jack Dee,
Oscar Wilde.
- There
is nothing more amusing than English politics, especially with Boris
Johnson around.
- I
hate remakes. Vanilla Sky was the worst, but I won’t get
started on that.
- I
procrastinate. One day I’ll stop.
- I
can’t get up in the morning, either.
- Pornographic
cartoons are very, very wrong.
- I
practise magic, particularly natural magic, mind magic and herbalism.
- Candles
seem to breed in my bedroom.
- I
used to play the flute. I tried to learn to play piano, but the
teacher was a nasty evil sexless bitch.
- Every
Boxing Day my 50-strong family hires out a church hall and everyone
dresses up like an idiot.
- Every
two years we descend on a youth hostel for a weekend and behave in
much the same way, but worse. The youth hostel is in Beer, which
probably explains a lot.
- I
need to get it into my head that chocolate is still chocolate even
when not eaten in the presence of other people.
- And
that buying lettuce then throwing it out when it goes out of date
does not make me any healthier or skinnier.
- I
am an insomniac, which is why I’m not in bed right now. I love
bed.
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