So, you were curious enough to want to know more about me?

Age: 30

Relationship Status: single (and the fact that I put this as the second item on the list is probably somehow significant)

Religion: none 

Star Sign: I don’t think that the location of distant balls of gas at the moment I popped out of the womb really tells you anything about me.

Birth Order: I don’t think you can read a lot into this, but I am the oldest.  I have a sister 2.5 years younger and a brother 6.5 years younger.

Myers-Briggs personality type: INTJ (explains a lot)

Favourite colour: dark red on me, blue otherwise

Favourite authors:  Louis L’Amour (historical fiction of the American west), Richard Dawkins (evolutionary biology), Jared Diamond (bio-geography), Clive Cussler (good time-wasting), Scott Adams (Dilbert cartoons)

Favourite movies: Indiana Jones (all three movies), Maverick, Strictly Ballroom, Team America: World Police, Oceans Eleven

Random fact: Most of the pictures I take don’t have people in them.  I like taking photos of landscapes and sunsets.

Favourite TV shows: Bones, CSI, CSI:NY, CSI:Miami, House, Penn & Teller’s Bullshit!, Boston Legal, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Mythbusters, Fair Go

Favourite TV shows on YouTube: A bit of Fry & Laurie, Qi (Quite interesting), Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe 

Random fact: Wikipedia is fast becoming my primary source of knowledge these days 

Favourite number: 21 

Favourite games: GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, Age of Empires (II & III), Sid Meier’s Pirates, Civilisation II

Random fact: I got 100% completion in Vice City but my 99% completed game of San Andreas was stolen when my place was burgled in 2005 and I still haven’t finished the game

Favourite country artists:  Blackhawk, Gary Allan, Hal Ketchum, Rascal Flatts, the Dixie Chicks, Alabama, Diamond Rio, Mark Wills, Kenny Chesney, John Michael Montgomery, Clint Black, Brooks & Dunn, John Anderson, George Strait, Toby Keith, Big & Rich, Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks,  Lee Kernaghan, Vince Gill

Random fact: I like the smell of petrol 

Favourite non-country artists:  John Farnham, Air Supply, Meatloaf, the Little River Band, the Bee Gees plus lots of 80s music

Favourite drinks: Diet Coke, Margarita (on the rocks), Long Island Iced Tea, Piña Colada, Tequila, Kahlua, Esquires Mochaccino, sparkling Asti wine

Random fact: I quite like getting caught in the rain

Favourite foods: Chocolate

Hobbies: Yeah right. I’m doing a PhD remember! 

Random fact: I used to play with my brother’s toys more than mine, especially his lego and meccano.  I would do the lego kits or make lego houses.

Interests: learning things, especially religion & the role of faith in human society, amateur astronomy, ancient history, learning Texas Hold’em

Childhood: I grew up on Waiheke Island, and spent most of my free time at the beach

Random fact: I like cars, boats, planes and helicopters 

Languages I speak: only English

Languages I’d like to speak: Spanish, Italian, French, German 

Random fact:  When I have to do something that makes me nervous (like speaking in front of 400 people), I don’t feel nervous, but my voice wobbles a bit

Things I like: pirates, cowboys, men in uniform (military, police, firemen etc)

Thinks I’d like to do: ride a motorcycle, fire a pistol, go kayaking

Random fact: I’m not a touchy-feely person.  I haven’t hugged or kissed my family members since I was at primary school 

Favourite childhood book series: The Three Investigators, Trixie Beldon, Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Willard Price

Domestic things I can do:  cross-stitch & tapestry, assemble kitset furniture, sew buttons, basic plumbing and painting, sew hems, bake pavlova

Domestic things I can’t do: knit, cook very well, repair my car

Random fact: I like organising things.  I like bags with lots of pockets, furniture with lots of compartments, and I like writing lists