About

It’s hard to write a modest, likeable profile that’s a true representation of who you really are, and even harder to write anything that doesn’t open you up to ridicule. This is why I shy away from them in every online space I have. But here I’ll attempt to fill that void with some first-date-style information that may give you a better picture of who I am.

The basics…

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Location: London

Home: UK

Job: Copywriter

Favourite…

books: ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ by Milan Kundera, ‘La Nausée’ by JP Sartre, ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte, ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’ by George Orwell, ‘Candide’ by Voltaire, some Lorca, some Larkin, some of ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’, and to cancel out the pretentiousness, ‘Pick Me Up’ and ‘Love It’

activities: photography, rowing, cycling, getting up ridiculously early, talking to myself in French, scribbling, thinking, staying up late doing nothing, people watching, staring into the distance, coming up with brilliant ideas I never do anything about, writing lists

music: at the moment, Kings of Leon (baaaa), Jason Mraz, Lady GaGa, Paramore (it’s good training music, honest)

films: ‘99F’ by Jan Kounen, ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and ‘Dr. Strangelove’ by Stanley Kubrick, ‘Angel-A’ by Luc Besson, ‘The Matrix’ by the Wachowski brothers, ‘The Meaning of Life’ by Monty Python, ‘Paris Je t’aime’, especially Tuileries, Faubourg Saint-Denis and 14e arrondissement

quote: ‘I mean, what is burglary, after all, if not the sincerest form of flattery? Anyone could say, “What fantastic and expensive items you have! Oh, how I wish they were mine!” But I have proven my sincerity by going that extra mile and actually robbing you.’

place: Paris, Trocadéro on a summer evening, watching the sun go down, listening to Head Automatica and eating a nutella crepe.  Failing that, Esquires in Woking, clutching a skinny mocha frappe

animals: greyhounds, monkeys, baby gorillas, cats, the woodlice that roll into balls

Things…

that make me laugh: people picking their noses when they’re driving, people who would rather stand than sit next to someone on public transport

that annoy me: square plates, comic sans, people who blow smoke in your face as you walk past them, people who don’t pick up their dog’s poo, lazy people, rude people, people in general

I admire: integrity, determination, strength, understanding, creativity, anyone who can do the washing up right after a meal

I do best: listening, observing, thinking, sitting on trains, cycling to work

I like to eat: chocolate-based desserts, pineapple, Curieux spaghetti, anything with pastry, pine nuts, the kinds of cheese you can’t get in France

I don’t like to eat: prawns, fish with eyes, fish with choky bones, sheep or baby sheep, baby cows, Angel Delight

And this is probably a good place to stick that obligatory disclaimer: anything I write in this blog is my own opinion and is no way representative of the organisation I work for.