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Hello, Barbelith.
I've been lurking around the site for about a year and a half, and eventually decided that, rather than an informed and impartial observer, it was making me feel a little like a seedy old man hiding in the bushes outside a particularly strict Catholic girls' school. Or something.
Anyway, I'm here now. I've made a few posts (nothing too interesting as of yet - that may, or may not be subject to change as my time here goes on), and figured it was probably time to introduce myself.
I'm a 24-year old graduate in English Lit., originally from the North-East of England, and now living in Oslo, Norway with my rather lovely Norwegistani girlfriend. So, naturally, I'm unemployed, and have been reduced to earning what little money I can by doing domestic chores for my girlfriend's mother on a bi-weekly basis. So, like all the very best English graduates, I've secured a prestigious job as a cleaner. Truly, an education is a wonderful thing. Ideally, I'll be working for a couple of years then returning to adademia to study for a PhD, with an eye to settling down with a nice comfortable lecturing position at some backwater University, but that rather depends on clearing at least some of my debts first. So it may take some time.
After several days spent trying to think of an interesting/appropriate Barbelith username, I gave up and simply selected a line at random from the song I happened to be listening to at the time (Bob Dylan's 'Farewell Angelina', as it happens). It says nothing more profound about me than that I'm something of a Dylan fan (well, quite a lot of a Dylan fan, actually, so it's probably as appropriate as anything else. I wrote my dissertation on him, after all). I keep a sporadically-updated and not-particularly-interesting blog (here), for those who are peculiarly desparate to know more.
So...any questions? What do I have to do to get a drink around here? |
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