- I grew up in an Irish Catholic enclave of Glasgow, renown for being the poorest area of the city. It was a horrible neighborhood, rife with sectarianism, drug-use and poverty, so I was overjoyed when we left.
- After attempting numerous times to escape my primitive Catholic school, I was finally expelled after rugby-tackling an elderly nun to the ground.
- My pub quiz team, The Royal Infirmaries, is notorious throughout the pubs and bars of Glasgow for being unbeatable. We've conquered every joint we've attended.
- I was given the name Violetta due to my mum's love for the heroine Violetta in Verdi's opera La traviata. My middle name is Agnes, after St. Agnes of Assisi.
- I'm able to find comfort and relaxation through performing mediocre household tasks, like ironing and dusting.
- After attending an anti-nuclear weapons protest at Faslane, I was arrested (despite being totally innocent) and spent the night of my 16th birthday in prison. It was such an injustice, but I can't wait to tell my grandkids this story.
- I'm learning Spanish, on top of the 3 (or 4, if we count my-reasonably-proficient-but-still-not-fluent Bokmål) languages I already speak. Because I'm going to be studying in Cuba and want to work in Venezuela, I need it badly.
- A few of my nicknames include:
- Letta, which I initially favoured. I thought Violetta sounded too exotic for a white Scandinavian girl living in the far-north, so I abbreviated it to Letta.
- Haggis, reflecting my Scottishness. A favourite among my English friends. I like it, to be honest!
- similar alternatives: Haggis features, Haggis face, Hags, Haggi and lamb guts.
- Violet, which I'm not keen on. Sounds too much like 'violent', at least in my hybrid Scottish-Irish accent.
- Mrs Granger, in reference to my desire to become a dentist, like Hermione's mother. Lol. Lame, I know.
- I used to be the epitome of an annoying white teenage liberal, being highly critical of the US, loathing Christianity, chanting ''Free Tibet!'' and signing hundreds of useless online petitions. I've grown up a lot since then.
- My parents won £700,000 in the lottery back in 2003, and used the cash to up sticks and emigrate to my dad's native Iceland. The remaining £15,000 or so they gave to me, which I have exclusively spent on travelling the globe.
- I've got around £5,520 left, I think.
- Speaking of travelling, I've been to 34 different countries on dirt-cheap travel packages, mainly in the northern hemisphere. I'm extremely grateful for all the gallivanting I've done and there's nothing I find more liberating than breathing in the air of a foreign land.
- I have an ENFJ, formerly INFJ (this is when I suffered from depression and was a wee bit more reclusive and shy), personality. I think I fit the description of one perfectly.
- I'm a vegetarian, but find a good 75% of all other non-meat-eating individuals I meet annoying as fuck, mainly because they're so arrogant and condescending towards meat-eaters. Vegetarianism really isn't for everyone.
- I really love finding out why people are vegetarian though. I'm especially intrigued by spiritual veggies.
- to be continued.
mar 16 2014 ∞
may 17 2014 +