Hello new (and old) friends! *waves*

[nursedarry]

I've just re-read my entry in that H/D Friending Meme and OMG, I sound like the dullest twat in the universe.

That may be mostly true, but not entirely, and if dysonrules hadn't been so bored at work and pounced on my post two seconds after it went up, I could have changed it, but NOOOooooooo!!!

Am thinking I might just delete it and make some shit up or post a funny gif or something.



* I'm older than you; this I can pretty much guarantee. If I'm not, I will be soon.

* I'm a nurse and public health specialist. I work for Berkshire West Primary Care Trust until it goes *poof* into the re-shuffled NHS ether in 2013. I've also been a practice nurse, a theatre (OR) nurse, a school nurse, and a unit nurse for the Scottish film and television industry. Before all that, I worked for the CDC in Atlanta. Before nursing school (at the Royal Free Hospital, London) and graduate school (at Tulane University, New Orleans), I did a BS in (physical) anthropology and biology (also at Tulane). So, I'm happy to talk about australopithecines if nursing isn't your bag.

* In fact, I'm happy to talk about anything. Ask anyone, I will talk until the cows come home.

* I am married to a nice boy from Edinburgh (and I mean boy; he's much younger than I am), who's an aircraft engineer in the Royal Air Force. Shortly after we married, he and I thought it might be nice to a have a baby... until my first scan, when the midwife kindly informed us we'd be having two babies. I therefore have a six-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl, who nearly almost, but not always, are joys to be around. (The same can also be said of my husband.)

* I play in a few fandoms, HP, obviously, also BSG, the Dune series (all of it), Star Trek (any incarnation), and my first love, the original Star Wars Trilogy. I'm also a fan of yaoi, and would marry Youka Nitta if it were legal and she'd have me.

* I don't post often, unless it's to squee about something or ask you for a favour. I do occasionally post the odd (and I do mean odd), piece of fic, which I hope you'll like, but it's okay if you don't. I absolutely LOVE how fandom is a place for all likes and dislikes and love that on LJ you can meet people who share these things.

* Speaking of sharing, I share my brain with several people in this place, most notably my soul-sister cassie_black12. Together we coerce recruit people to help with and/or attend the hp_uk_meetups. Believe me, you'll hear more about that as the year goes by. I also mod a couple of things, and edit here and there. My oldest and dearest RL friends, ladyoneill and delphipsmith are also here, along with the person I know I can bitch to 24/7, the marvelous kilter.

* Along with fandom folk, I also love baseball, the gym, sushi, shopping, roller coasters, chocolate, iced tea, the cinema, trains, R&B music, mysteries, the beach, the mountains, snakes and spiders (yes, real ones), men in uniform, and meeting new people.

If you've read through all that (or even if you haven't), I know you're probably bored now. I'll leave you with this simple task in order for me to learn a little something about you.

Please replace the Xs with the names of people who AREN'T your OTP. For instance, if you're leo_draconis and you put "Harry" and "Draco", I'll know you're lying, and will hit you over the head with your own spleen (don't think that I can't!).

Copy and paste into the comments, please:

<b>I would love to be the centre of a</b> XXXXX <b>and</b> XXXXX <b>sandwich.</b>

It might be useful to include the name of the fandom, as I'm not familiar with all the sandboxes people play in here (although I know the more obvious ones - Inception, Merlin, Dr Who, various manga).

It's lovely to know all of you and I hope to see you around! ♥