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NAME: Alex
AGE: Just about 25.
INTERESTS & HOBBIES: reading, writing, graphic making, volunteering, computers, web design, being alone, spending time with friends once in a blue moon, making lists, roleplaying
LOOKING FOR: Just people to try and get to know?
ANYTHING ELSE?: I'm in Australia, looking to move to the UK. I work at a Library, study Archiving and volunteer in about four or five different places. I'm the oldest of three children, I post about my RL, fandom stuff is intermixed but not dominate it might take up a paragraph or less. I"m rather random. I try not to post solely about it too much as I have a number of journal friends who aren't into fandom and really it could be boring after awhile to them!

I'm highly organised, I love being busy and often am but I do get online quite a bit too. I have goodreads as well as the sites below. I'm a MASSIVE reader - mostly YA fantasy, sci-fi and history but a good dose of adult in it. I pretty much won't touch chicklit/erotica etc but will give anything else at least a shot. If I want RL I'll go outside 'kay?

ALSO KNOWN AS:

theladyunicorn

theladyunicorn

Okay... Try theladyunicorn nearly everywhere and you'll get me :P

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Given the convergence of interests and the fact we're in the same city, how come I don't know you already?!

I have no idea but it obviously needs to be fixed!

Actually I suspect it might be age :)

Possible. I have a lot of older friends but I think you might be older than them too.

*waves walking stick*

I remember Dungeons & Dragons came with artwork by Trampier and Otus!

(Actually, I even remember the fall of Saigon, but that's another matter...)

I don't mind. I have friends up to as old as my grandparents generation...

Hi Alex! I am Claire, of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US area (West Chester specifically), possibly organised, but possibly random - older of two sisters.
I've wanted to move to England for years, but then that changed to Russia.
(Ended up visiting China since it was cheapest to buckle down, make sure I knew a few kanji, and say "nihao" to a few of my professor's friends over there.)

I "followed" your GR page. I generally spend more time on LJ but sometimes live on DW for a change of journals and other scenery.
I read so much, myself - twenty pages from the end of Gorky Park right now! ^_^ And a couple of other things... I mostly read things in English but can ~~kind of~~ grok the gist of a few other languages if I honestly sit down and try.

I don't want to jump on you so only if you want!

Hi Claire! You sound cool - Russia is another country I love but the history more so than it is now. IDK if I'd want to move there but I'd like to visit at the very least. China would be amazing too though!

You can always add my LJ (same name) if you wish. I mostly crosspost so you wouldn't miss much. I'll follow you back on GR, readers much unite :D

How wonderful! ♥ You can really get lost in the history of both places. I've heard conflicting reports about whether it is good to go to Russia, though everyone says during the winter is a bad idea. And one can get lost in the cultures. I've spent semesters at it, and there's always something else someone said somewhere.

I do not cross-post since I have some things I want to say to a DreamWidth-specific audience and others to a LiveJournal-specific one. I think I tend for the latter, but I like both.

GR claims I am two books behind my schedule, but that is okay - I would rather enjoy the books I have than rush through them. Not close enough to the end of anything to just call it done. I could say I didn't want to finish the Death Penalty book and I think Doctor Faustus gives me enough of a headache I'm going to say it's too much for me right now...

Absolutely - any and all history actually :) - at the moment I'm trying not to get completely involved in the book about the public records office that I have next to me and instead only glance at it if I need something from it for the assignment I'm working on. Trust me it is veeery difficult. I have heard that Russia's winter can be absolutely horrible but outside of it I'm sure it would be fine?

I get that, I mean I cross-post my general posts but if it's site specific I won't x-post.

I totally agree! I mean I'm about 10 books behind but I read when I can and who knows I might catch up. This is my secondary goal either way but if I read I read and if not well I'll have time later?

True, true. It's so tempting to get caught up in all of the fascinating details... so have I, and that the winter is most of the year.
I'm not entirely sure, but the literature and other arts are splendid regardless.

*nodnod*

Today I claimed "Paradise Lost" done enough so I'm roughly "on track" - if that even means anything to anyone. What it means to me is that I don't have to say I've read many more than I already have been saying I have been reading per diem to make that GR goal. If I do, then I mean to add 10 or 20 to next year.
I read all the time, it's just a matter of actually saying anything on the Internet about it.
There is no race.

We'll just have to live vicariously :)

Great to hear, one more book read is always an excellent thing to achieve :D I used to read a lot more than I do now due to RL. I'm starting to enjoy Talking Books and am trying my hand at eBooks too just so I can read on the go...

^_^

RL can get so nasty.
I'm suspicious of audiobooks (they don't feel like the same thing), though it's very true the Ivan Denisovich one fixed my inherent laziness with grokking the stream of text Solzhenitsyn suggested.

It can :(

I totally understand that. Until 2012 I wasn't a fan of them at all. Then I moved out of home and it was taking me at LEAST 45mins each way to and from work so I started to listen and I fell in love?

All we can do is fight the disagreeable parts.

I'm still not a really big fan of audiobooks, but perhaps I'm just being persnickety about how I get my fix of human contact.

Amen.

I get that.

You seem interesting. Give it a go?

More than happy too :)

Hey, so this is Aeryn/Erin/

affictitious -- I didn't know you had a DW journal! c:

Oh hi there :) Yeah I haven't been the best at using it but I'm hoping to change it.

I love your username!

I'm new here myself and basically just looking for people to get to know. Is it ok if I add you?

Thank you - I quite like yours too.

Of course, I don't mind at all. I'll add you back in a bit :)

Hey! I LOVE READING TOO and love to talk to people about reading, or read about their reading! I added you? If you'd like to be friends I'll add you on GoodReads too! :)

Sounds good to me! Feel free to add me on GR too if you wish :)

Excellent, I added you! My name is Jenni!

Awesome :)

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