• 💛 ꫝꪖꪀꪀꪖꫝ (she/they), 27
• 🐝 living in manchester, my most loved city and chosen home 🚋
• 🏳️‍🌈 queer / sapphic
• 🎧 music means so much to me, especially halsey
• 🎓 i'm a 2020 graduate. i studied english, geography and philosophy throughout my time at uni, and got a masters in creative writing ... ironically i've discovered that i don't really enjoy writing very much
• 👷‍♀️ i feel like it was kind of inevitable that i'd end up working in stem. i work in construction now, although as a planner my work mainly involves gantt charts and spreadsheets 📊
• 👾 somehow i've also become the ai expert at work, which is funny because i'm not really a tech person, although i am pretty fascinated by machine learning and ot...

• Core Value One: Connection to Others
  • Spend time with my family, together and individually
  • Help my family out when they need me
  • Maintain healthy boundaries with my family
  • Seek out communities which feel safe and affirming
  • Build my social life around those communities
  • Persevere with things, even though social anxiety is so painful
  • Work on developing better professional relationships
  • Meet local people while travelling, listen to their stories and learn from their ways of life
  • Have a healthy and loving romantic relationship
  • Have 3-5 friends who I can rely on, who I...

• My mind is a natural world-builder - I have a seemingly infinite capacity for creating concepts, characters and worlds in my mind, an ability which has helped me through my darkest times
• I'm a creative thinker - I have no interest in things staying the same, and can envision many possible ideas that could work better
• I'm an empath - I'm always impacted by the feelings in a room, am acutely aware of how words and actions can cause harm, and I remember every little detail I learn about a person forever
• I have a profound belief in justice and equality - I won't accept injustice, and I have very little respect for hierarchy or authority
• I'm good at pretty much all reasoning / intelligence tests - there isn't really much I can't work out, a lot of things come naturally to me, and I'm capable of learning things that don't

• Ancient history
• Archives
• Being a big sister
• Birds of prey
• Capybaras
• Celebrating anything
• Chai
• City mornings
• Climbing things (mountains, rocks, walls, trees...)
• Coffee
• Cold showers when it's hot out
• Combat boots
• Concerts
• Cooking
• Cuddles with my cats
• Dahlias
• Doctor Who (esp. David Tennant + Rose)
• ... Also, my favourite Doctor Who episode "The End of The World"
• Driving in the rain
• Eyeliner

to whom i owe so much of the person i have become, for better and for worse

• Hamia Riyah Aboud
• Jasdeep "Jas" Akter
• Reena Akter
• Leslie "Elle" Bereiter
• Grace Ashley Edwards
• Clementine "Clem" Anne Hayward
• Maeve Laurence Jeffs
• Kelly Ayorochukwu Johnson
• Kieran Emil Jake Jones
• Theo Mathew Jones
• Angus David Malone
• Niamh Julianne Malone
• Maximilian "Max" George Enderby Manning
• Daniel "Danny" Edward Maurer
• Mila Amelia Mitchell McAllister
• Rose Elise McKinley
• Lilianna "Lilia" Rose Petie
• Elizabeth "Eliza" Sophie Reilly
• Esther Margarita Rollins

• Book hotel room for Christmas party
• Complete and submit Module 2 coursework
• Cross-checks on Rachel's programmes
• Draft ideas for Engineering Department monthly dashboard
• Email survey questions and any Cost Report blockers to Dan
• Finish draft Cost Report for Gas Department
• Speak to Steve about FPRs
• Timesheet for last week (rolling, my timesheet is always overdue...)
• Update Tom's Wormington project tracker

• Book parking in Brighton
• Cancel Audible subscription
• Choose an outfit for Halloween
• Exchange travel money back to £££
• Laundry (bed sheets and towels)
• Pack for Halloween trip
• Write Christmas list (Halsey art, replacement headphone cushions, 2026 almanac, maybe jewellery)

This list is a compilation of all the things that I've had on the lifetime lists or bucket lists I've made since I was 16, or at least the ones I could find. It includes the things I still hope to do someday, things I have now accomplished, things I don't mind whether I do or not, and things I no longer plan on doing in my life.

• Adopt a cat (who lives with me, not my parents)
• Be a foster parent
• Build a scale model of something
• Buy a small RV
• Buy my own apartment / house
• Complete my CIOB Level 4
• Climb Ben Nevis
• Climb to Everest base camp
• Date a girl
• Do a P6 course
• Earn money doing something I love (not in...

• Geology
  • I believe that the study of geology is fundamental to understanding life on Earth
  • To study geology is to study the foundation of Earth and the building blocks of civilisation
  • Power of rocks and minerals, from crystals to mountains

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• Philosophy
  • I'm particularly interested in refining my own personal / existential philosophies relating to The Ever / Universal Syntax / Equativism etc.
  • I also enjoy studying ancient philosophy, with Epicurean philosophy being my favourite bedrock for modern philosophy
  • My interest in philosophy also extends to...

• Albertsson, Alaric - To Walk a Pagan Path
• Blake, H. Emerson - Wonder and Other Survival Skills
• Byrne, Oliver - Oliver Byrne's Elements of Euclid
• Cargle, Rachel E. - A Renaissance of Our Own
• Chung, Jezz - This Way to Change
• Eggerue, Chidera - What a Time to be Alone
• Gallagher, Kirsty - Sacred Seasons
• Harrison, Victoria - The Solstice Yearbook
• Hayes, Kelly & Kaba, Mariame - Let This Radicalize You
• Jacobsen, Mary-Elaine - The Gifted Adult
• Jain, Parveen - A Introduction to Jain Philosophy
• Joy, Jess & Mia, Charlotte - How Not To Fit In
• King, Vex - Good Vibes, Good Life
• Kovacs, Betty - Merchants of Light
• Lundy, Miranda - Sacred Geometry
• McNee, Amie - We Need Your Art
• Nenquimo, Nemonte - We Will Not Be Saved
• Newman, Felice - The Whole Lesbian Sex Book
• Nikolic, Zoran - The Atlas of Unusual Languages
• Parikian, Lev - Light Rains Sometimes Fall
• Pearl, David - Wanderful

• Yule \\ Winter Solstice (Dec. 20-23)
• Imbolc \\ The Promise of Spring (Feb. 2)
• Ostara \\ Spring Equinox (March 19-22)
• Beltane \\ Festival of Fire \\ Mayday (May 1)
• Litha \\ Summer Solstice (June 19-23)
• Lughnasadh \\ First Harvest (Aug. 1)
• Mabon \\ Autumn Equinox (Sept. 21-24)
• Samhain \\ Halloween \\ Witches' New Year (Oct.31, Nov. 1)

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• Upcoming Events
  • 24th-26th October: Halloween weekend (girls beach trip with pumpkin carving, scary movies and shocktoberfest)
  • 1st-2nd November: Firework weekend (aka watching every firework show around from my bedroom skylight while drinking hot chocolate and wearing a super cosy jumper)
  • 15th November: JLS Concert
  • 21st Novemver: Lucy Spraggan Concert
  • 29th November: Work Christmas party
  • 5th-7th December: Visit mum & dad, see Brooklyn in London, maybe go ice skating at Hampton Court
  • 22nd December - 4th January: Christmas break
  • 29th January: Halsey Concert
  • 7th March: TedX
  • 24th - 26th July: Camp VC

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• Abrams, J. J. and Dorst, Doug - S.
• Kiyoko, Hayley - Girls Like Girls
• MacGregor, Maya - The Evolving Truth of Ever-Stronger Will
• Mootoo, Shani - Cereus Blooms at Night
• Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49

• USA Disney ‘06. East Coast road trip ‘16.
• Germany Christmas markets + Grandma's birthday ‘07. Exchange trip ‘12. Stay with Sumita ‘14.
• Austria Family holiday ‘08.
• France Skiing with Malcolm, Maddy + Toby ‘09. Calais class trip ‘10. Battlefields ‘12/‘15. 21st birthday in Paris ‘19.
• Belgium Battlefields ‘12/‘15.
• Malta Easter + Brooke's birthday ‘12. Christmas ‘13. Summer holiday ‘15. Christmas ‘17. Christmas ‘19.
• Italy School trip to Rome/Florence/Siena/Venice ‘14. Holiday in Sorrento ‘14.
• Vatican City School trip ‘14.
• Canada Family reunion, Toronto + 18th birthday, Quebec ‘16.
• Spain Field trip in Maro ‘17. Barcelona with Brooke ‘17.
• Switzerland St. Moritz Snow Polo Championships ‘18...