About

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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.

I enjoy good food, and would like to learn to cook a few more things and build my 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.

If you believe in Myers-Briggs, I’m an INFP.  FWIW.

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.

And easily distracted.

I make the acquaintance of new strange and wonderful people every year.