About
I’ve lived in Brisbane all my life.
I’d like to visit Istanbul, St Petersburg, and all of the obvious places. I like cities.
But I still haven’t seen as much of Queensland as I would like, let alone Australia, let alone its people.
I am a pretty appalling cook, but I enjoy good food. I wish I had more tolerance for spices. I also like whiskey, particularly Irish whiskey.
I graduated (finally) from my degree in linguistics in 2008.
I read a lot more non-fiction than fiction. I like history - early modern, world, European, Australian politics. The biographies I most enjoyed were about the Marx Brothers and Paul Keating.
The only fiction I can read easily is David Foster Wallace and Kurt Vonnegut.
And Calvin and Hobbes.
I talk a lot about politics and movies. I’d love to be a film critic.
I blog about (world, American and Australian) politics, things to do with languages, the internet and online campaigning, religion, my day, and interesting things that my friends have come across. I make no pretence to originality.
I’m pretty sharply opinionated and I often rush to judgement. I stick to a few friends closely but I like meeting people with a wide variety of different tempraments. I can be studied, polite and sympathetic except when I’m tired.
I’m often easily distracted and enjoy following tangents all the way home.
I make the acquaintance of new strange and wonderful people every year. I try, not always successfully, to bring together a loving catholic upbringing with my intellectual curiosity, my friends, their liquor, and my introspective tendencies.
I work for the trade union movement.
I love it here.
