lemonysnicket

15/8/08: I am having a sehr good week♥ - passed my driving test and my A Levels (AAC)!

Hello, I'm Jess and I'm something of a geek. I'm eighteen and I live by the sea in North Wales. I have just finished school and come September I am off to study Literature with Creative Writing at University in London.

I like creativity; writing lists and diaries and stories and poems and letters, polaroids, photography in general, collage, blank paper, biro and paint, scrapbooks and origami and rudimentary felt stuffies and homemade cards, etc. At the moment I'm learning to sew and to knit.

I enjoy; reading, sleeping, making mess and fun, snail mail of any description, late night train journeys, comic books, dressing up, face paint, internet, sparklers, messy hair, Nintendo DS, music festivals, Ben and Jerry's, typewriters, colour, sprinklings of deutsch, Postsecret, Paperchase, history, bookstores and coffee shops, carrot cake, spontaneity, articulate language, the beach, the city, camping, airports, hotels, eating out, winter, mythology, Wikipedia, the theatre and baking.

I am also a keen traveller and I love experiencing new places. So far I have visited Ireland, France, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Cyprus, Denmark, Norway, Dubai, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Canada and the USA. I would love to go to Japan, India or Russia, but in all honesty anywhere new and exciting suits me! I love languages and culture. Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch & I am learning Russian and Japanese at the moment.

I would love to receive: anything handmade, letters and journals, matchboxes and whimsey jars, homemade stuffies (food with faces♥), polaroids, undeveloped film, your favourite photographs, drawings and paintings, ATCs, homemade postcards, mixed CDs, interesting things from your country, map, quotes, quirky writing paper, felt scraps, collage scraps and ephemera, scrabble cubes and games pieces, interesting cookie cutters, recipes, a big, fat, vintage locket, robot/ pirate/ video game related things (particularly old school Nintendo, Sonic, Tetris, PacMan, etc.), things with rainbows/ polka dots/ apples/ strawberries/ cupcakes, etc. But I'm not fussy. As long as a certain degree of thought has been put into a swap, I can't complain.

I am a closet perfectionist so if I commit to a swap I will complete it with as much time and care as possible and to the best of my abilities. I only hope that you are suitably happy with the result.

I LOVE BOOKS & I am swiftly making my way through 1001 Books to Read Before you Die! Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Plath, Harper Lee, J. D. Salinger, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John Irving, Michael Burgess, Jane Austen, Vladmir Nabokov, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Pat Barker, J. K. Rowling, Bill Bryson, J. R. R. Tolkein. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Siri Hustvedt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

At the moment I am reading: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and the Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx.

Amelie, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Grave of Fireflies, My Neighbour Totoro (in fact anything from Studio Ghibli), A Series of Unfortunate Events, Juno, A Very Long Engagement, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, In America, Edward Scissorhands, Moulin Rouge, Life of Brian, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Stardust, LOTR, Run Lola Run, Goodbye Lenin!

DOCTOR WHO (David Tennant♥), Friends, Scrubs, QI, The Mighty Boosh, Skins, Desperate Housewives, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Flight of the Concords, The Big Bang Theory, Dead like Me.

Rocky-poppy-indie-emo music that I can sing along with and dance like a crazy person to [: Film soundtracks & Musicals (I HEART Les Miserables) Woo, Leeds Festival 2008!