Don't be afraid to say hello! I will almost certainly reply, although there may be a delay. I am a very busy person and might be doing important things such as watching TV or laying on the sofa eating potato chips (or even both at the same time, if I am very busy!)
I like to think I'm a pretty interesting person. I'm certainly more interesting than I look, which I suppose is better than looking more interesting than I am. I come from a spectacularly boring town between two rather more interesting places - Liverpool and Manchester. I studied in Manchester, so decided to adopt it as my hometown so that I don't have to tell people I'm from Warrington which, as I said, is quite horrible.
Having said that, it's where I grew up and I'll always have a soft spot for the people (and our enormous IKEA - seriously, it's pretty impressive!)
My biggest passion is for learning new things, whether that's by experiencing new cultures, reading books or watching documentaries. Some of my favourite subjects are biology, physics, philosophy, psychology, history and computing.
I am not much of an aspirational person. I don't want to be rich, famous or "successful" - just happy. To be honest, I am not someone who finds it easy to be happy. I'm naturally melancholic and the societal pressure to "be" something adds to this. So... I have decided to dedicate myself to trying new things, doing different jobs, meeting different people and living in different places. I hope that by the end (or hopefully before then), I will feel happy.
At the moment... I live in Prague and work as a freelance science editor, which means I edit papers for publication in scientific journals. I love the work as it allows me a lot of free time to sit around doing nothing, planning completely unrealistic and romantic futures for myself as a nobel prize-winning biologist.
I love music and can play the guitar pretty well, the piano less so and the violin... don't ask. I love most genres of music but tend to get obsessed with individual artists more than a type of music. My musical tastes are written as a list in the music section (who doesn't like a nice list!?)