What’s in a name?

• I am named after a Shakespearean heroine who dressed up as a boy
• I have 2 middle names – Frances and Rebecca
• I live in London with my saint-like other half but will soon be moving have recently moved to Switzerland
• I’m about to live alone for the 1st time in my life I’ve lived on my own for nearly a year now  over two years and can’t ever imagine living with anyone else.
• I still don’t have any brothers or sisters
• 2 other people have lived with my family (instead of their own) for one reason or another.
• I have an unhealthy obsession with gin and tonic, red wine, port and cheese
• I started smoking when I was 13
• I started drinking about the same time
• My father is an orphan
• He was one of the first people to be adopted in Ireland
• My perfect threesome would be Mark Cueto and Ben Cohen … I don’t know, I change my mind with the wind and although the older I get, the less I think I’d be able to cope! I could be bothered
• I have an un-natural obsession with crap cheesy pop and musicals
• And am quite happy to admit I know most of the words to most songs
• It annoys me when people try to sing along but don’t know the words
• It’s become a rather odd habit of mine that I listen to the Les Mis soundtrack while walking home after a night out.
• If I could live at any time period I would live in the late 1800′s and I would be very rich - actually, on second thoughts, I wouldn’t mind which time period I lived in as long as I was very rich!
• I love flirting with people but sometimes I think I can go too far. Although, most of the time I’m not meaning to flirt at all.
• It doesn’t matter if they are good looking or not
• My biggest fear is the thought that people don’t want to be around me and talk to me. If it’s suggested that someone is talking to me against their will [ie, I am forcing them to talk to me and they're desperate to get away], I get stupidly upset.
• I hate letting people down
• But I sometimes do it
• I always complain I am getting old even though I am under 30
• I hate the fact that my parents must know I am not a virgin anymore (virgin’ on the ridiculous)
• I can translate latin given enough time
• I have known some people from the internet longer than I have known some of my closest friends
• I can be a complete bitch if I want and I don’t care who knows it
• I could speak Husa (Nigerian dialect) before I could speak English
• I then moved onto Spanish when I was 2 1/2 and my English was rudimentary
• I now have a degree in English and can’t speak languages to save my life
• I don’t really have any deep dark secrets
• I play used to play rugby
• That does not make me a lesbian
• Sometimes I worry about nothing, just for the sake of worrying
• I am not a career woman – never have been although I’m starting to think now that I’m in Switzerland, I have no choice but to become one of those unmarried 40 year old women who live for their careers. That, or a cougar. Or a mad cat woman.
• I can’t wait to be able to settle down in a nice house in the countryside
• Now things have changed I wonder whether I’ll ever achieve this dream. I genuinely have given up on the thought of ever being married.
• Despite everything that happened, I still don’t understand what N sees saw in me
• I’m getting old before my time – sometimes I’d rather stay at home with a good film and a glass of wine, rather than go out with my friends
• I want to be popular but I don’t think I am
• I’m very argumentative when I’m drunk
• When people ask me about the move and ask whether I’m scared or excited, I don’t know what to say because I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. I just say “both”. Now I’m here, I realise that actually, “both” is true.

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