Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
- Dorothy Parker
Lives in Cape Town, subject to the inexpressible whims of cats, academia and an Evil Landlord.
Likes: non-realist fiction, procrastination, Dorothy Parker, sf b-movies, cooking huge meals for friends. Low reprehensible passions: spaceships, superheroes, swordfighting. Dislikes: hot weather, cherubs, dial-up modems, African political realism, Tom Cruise. Vices: hyperbole, pulp literature, Earl Grey tea. Virtues: efficiency, waffle, occasional intelligence.
Breaks easily. May fizz suddenly without warning in presence of certain catalysts. Will growl at grammatical malfeasance. Gets high on words.