justwolf

I was born in Dublin, and have lived in Ireland and Scotland. I love sending letters and hope to connect with some penpals by using this site.

I enjoy reading and writing, especially writing and reading poetry. Literature and writing are very important to me and I spend a lot of time reading. I'm also really interested in art, and I like going to art galleries in my spare time. Degas, Goya, Schiele, Rembrandt and Hokusai are some of my favourite artists.

I will be studying veterinary nursing in Edinburgh starting this September (2011). I volunteered in an aniaml shelter full time for two years, and I love animals. I have a pet ferret called Sukey who I adopted a year ago and three beautiful cats. Obviously, animal welfare is very important to me too!

As you can see from the TV programmes I have listed, I'm a pretty big geek. I've watched sci-fi for years, and I've recently started to get into anime and manga. I'm quite a shy person and have spent the last few years either working or at home trying to read or write.

I have had some mental health problems, such as depression, and am gradually getting better from them. I had to drop out of university because of them in 2009, where I was studying classics. I've decided I would rather work with animals, so I'm looking forward to my new course.

I'm always interested to here from new people and to learn about different perspectives or places. A few more details: I am in my early twenties and female, I am gay, I do not practice any religion, I try to face every day with courage.

Knitting, watercolouring painting, drawing, oil painting, cooking, baking, stickers, making books, writing stories, drawing silly cartoons

Novels: 'Frost in May' by Antonia White, 'Brideshead Revisted' by Evelyn Waugh, 'A Wizard of Earthsea' by Ursula Le Guin, Moomin books by Tove Jansson, 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card, 'Precious Bane' by Mary Webb, 'The Vintner's Luck' by Elizabeth Knox, 'Norwegian Wood' by Haruki Murakami

Poetry: 'Beasts of Scotland' by Edwin Morgan, 'Duino Elegies' by Rainer Maria Rilke, 'Crow' by Ted Hughes, Rachael Boast, Paul Celan, Robert Graves, Sappho, Homer, Virgil, Sylvia Plath, Tennyson, John Donne's Divine Sonnets, Arthur Rimbaud

Non-fiction: 'The Philosopher and The Wolf' by Mark Rolands, 'Hons and Rebels' by Jessica Mitford, 'Corvus' by Esther Woolfson

TV: Doctor Who, Babylon 5, Blake's 7, Farscape, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Mighty Boosh, How I Met Your Mother, Rome

Anime: Hikaru no Go, Loveless, Hunter x Hunter, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Kuroshitsuji, Death Note, xxxHolic, Card Captor Sakura

I like stickers, soft toys, yarn and badges. I really enjoy children's books. I like animals a lot, and dinosaurs are great too. I have a particular soft-spot for small mammals like guinea pigs, hamsters and rabbits, and I also really like cats and ferrets, though it's very rare for me to meet an animal I don't like. I really enjoy cooking and love trying foods from all over the world. I also generally like anything that 6-year-olds like.

I like lots of different colours: I mainly wear black, pink, grey, red and purple, but I also like most colours in other contexts. My bedroom is currently yellow. I'm not very fond of blue. I like leopard print a lot, probably influenced by my favourite band, Manic Street Preachers.

I love knitting, especially with lace-weight yarn, and have been trying to knit lots of different lace patterns recently.