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| User: | purple_pen (1528180) 
The Longest Journey
90% of Problems are caused by delivery of Nodding Dogs
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| Name: | Lady Summerisle |
| Bio: | The basics: I spent the first two decades of my life as a Midlander, the third as a Southerner, and now I'm beginning the fourth as a Northerner. Other than that, I'm not much into categories when it comes to my personal life: and I don't aim for consistency either! Things that matter to me include honesty, enterprise, innovation, quality, passion, self-knowledge and humour: the context or genre is less important.
Work: I'm a University lecturer in Roman history, specialising in Roman cities. This of course means that I am generally very much into anything to do with the Romans, including Roman archaeology, any aspects of Roman material culture, Roman literature, Roman gods and also films set in the Roman world. I'm inclined to work too hard, while at the same time remaining convinced that it isn't hard enough. Hey, that's academia. Posts about students or colleagues are usually friendslocked.
Play: Outside of my work, I'm a serial fangirl. Particularly ardent obsessions include Jeeves & Wooster (books and TV series), Stephen Fry in general, Buffy and Angel, Doctor Who, Diana Wynne Jones books (especially The Worlds of Chrestomanci), and Harry Potter books and films (especially Severus Snape). You can divine many others from my interests. I love dancing and singing, but only for my own enjoyment: I don't expect anyone else to be impressed by the results! As for the music, it runs right from Handel to the Spice Girls... and I really hate musical bigotry.
Sex and relationships: I'm single, have been for five years, and feel no pressing desire to change that. I'm not saying the door is closed to that special someone, but I'm not actively looking. In the meantime, the odd dalliance here and there is more than enough for me. I'm bisexual, but in practice a lot more interested in girls than boys these days.
On LJ: I make as much of my journal public as I can without compromising other people's privacy or giving away sensitive personal information (e.g. my address). I'm happy to be friended by anyone who wishes to do so, and you'll be able to read most of what I write if you do. If I know you in real life, you've introduced yourself, or we've got to know each other via comments somewhere, I'll quite probably friend you right back. But I don't usually friend people who add me without saying anything.
Contact details: If you're on my friends list, you'll find all my up-to-date contact details here.
Credits: I make all my usericons myself. It's a personal pride thing. Except for the pictures they're made from, of course: those are stolen wantonly from all over the place. Where someone else has had a significant creative input into the icon, this is credited in a comment. My journal layout is Smooth Sailing.
And, finally:
The Wicker Man is love.
Or, as its creator had it after some technical hiccups:
"For the last spacking time, the Wicker Man is love! Gah!"
Banner made for me by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) oxfordgirl
Alessandro Moreschi is love.
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| Memories:: | 88 entries |
| Pictures: | over 900 public |
| Interests: | 150: academia, alan rickman, alessandro moreschi, all things gothique, alternative culture, ancient history, ancient religion, apollo, archaeological sites, archaeology, augustus, baroque opera, belly of an architect, bisexuality, blackcurrants, books, boots, buffy the vampire slayer, c.j. cregg, castrati, chocolate, choral music, christopher chant, christopher lee, cicero, cities, classical epics, classical receptions, claudia cardinale, claudius, coffee, corsets, countertenors, crispy aromatic duck, cult films, cult tv, dancing, daria, david cordier, derek jacobi, diana wynne jones, doctor who, douglas adams, dreaming, e.m. forster, eighties music, fantasy, federico fellini, festivals, fiction, flanders and swann, flared trousers, food, frasier, fry and laurie, funky girl pop, futurama, girls, greek statues, hammer horror films, handel, hercules the legendary journeys, hong kong, horror stories, interests lists, italy, james bond films, jeeves and wooster, kiss, late antiquity, latin, lavender, leeds, liquorice, long hair, mascarpone cheese, may day, melon, memes, music, my little ponies, mysterious cities of gold, new year, once_upon_a_time_in_the_west, opera, orthopraxy, oxford, p.g. wodehouse, pandora peroxide, period clothing, peter cushing, peter greenaway, philip pullman, pinstripe, platforms, pliny the younger, polytheism, popular culture, punctuation, purple, purple agate, quite interesting, radio 4, ritual, robin blaze, rodolfo lanciani, roma, roman art, roman cities, roman coins, roman history, roman material culture, roman ruins, roman statues, romance, rome, roses, severus snape, sex and the city, singing, six feet under, sleeping, smart cars, sophia loren, stephen fry, strawberries, summer, summerisle, sunshine, symbolism, syncretism, syncretistic polytheism, terry pratchett, the today programme, the wicker man, the worlds of chrestomanci, tom lehrer, tom wolfe, trajan, ulysses 31, universities, unrequited love, urban bovines, urban space, vincent price, vivaldi, west wing, writing, xmas music, yuri |
| Schools: | King Edward VI High School for Girls - Birmingham, England - West Midlands, United Kingdom (1987 - 1994)
University of Bristol - Bristol, England - Bristol, United Kingdom (1994 - 1997)
University of Oxford - Oxford, England - Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (1997 - 2001)
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