CURRENT MISSION

To have a lovely time :)

ABOUT ME

I'm obsessed with music. And books. I work as a PA and study psychology part time. I like unicorns, dinosaurs and dogs. I don't like the sound of brushes or being too cold.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe in being as nice to other people as possible and opening yourself up to as much experience as possible. I can be quite quiet and shy, but I try my best at the above despite it :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm sadly not really in a situation to host people at the moment, but I'm happy to meet up for a drink, a gig, dancing, to show people around Sheffield, etc.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far, just advice on places to see/things to do, and one awesome meet up for drinks, food and baseball in Toronto :)

Interests

music, gigs, reading, drinking tea, dinosaurs, laughing until I cry and my stomach hurts, dancing, my friends, pretty clothes and shoes, going out for dinner, being silly, aromatherapy, harassing people with my D-SLR camera, charity shops, being a foodie, zombies, high cocoa solids chocolate, being soppy about dogs, peculiar antique shops, unicorns, cooking, putting things in alphabetical order, being spectacularly unsporty and unoutdoorsy, tattoos and piercings, summer, cartoon art, arty photography, buying more books than I have time to read, people watching, New York, cuddles and snuggles, crying at films and books... making lists.

• dogs
• arts
• books
• photography
• tattoos
• piercings
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• chocolate
• drinking
• clothing
• movies
• reading
• knitting
• music
• baseball
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: http://www.last.fm/user/squids_music

Movies: Almost Famous, Amelie, American Beauty, Away We Go, Being John Malkovich, Big Lebowski, Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Breakfast Club, The Dark Crystal, Donnie Darko, Empire Records, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Evil Dead I & II, ExistenZ, Fifth Element, Fight Club, Garden State, Hot Fuzz, The Hudsucker Proxy, Juno, Labyrinth, Lost In Translation, Me You & Everyone We Know, My Neighbour Totoro, The Princess Bride, Romeo + Juliet, Royal Tenenbaums, Secretary, Shaun Of The Dead, Shawshank Redemption, Spirited Away, Tank Girl, Time Bandits, Troll 2, Watership Down, The Warriors, Up

Books: Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson, Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn, Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, Ghostwritten by David Mitchell, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman, Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy, Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde, Scott Pilgrim series by Bryan Lee O'Malley, Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives by Dan Eagleman, This Book Could Save Your Life by AM Homes, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Standing at the top of the Empire State Building, gazing at Manhattan's bright lights by night.
- Paddling in the fountain in Millennium Park, Chicago on a beautiful sunny day, with the sky reflecting in Cloud Gate.
- Bunjee jumping off a bridge over a river outside Queenstown, NZ(and pretty much everything about that stunning country)
- Visiting the pyramids and sphinx at Giza.
- Watching my first baseball game in Toronto.
- Going to SXSW music festival in Austin, having an absolute ball with some fantastic people, seeing once in a lifetime bands and getting a tattoo to mark the occasion!

Teach, Learn, Share

Geeky knowledge about music, films, books and psychology! Erm... knitting?

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom