January 2007:

So it's a new year again (thankfully) and here's to hoping that all of you will have a good one. I know that I've been kind of bad with updating any of my stories (but chapter 7 of Demon Kiss is out, btw) yet hopefully I'll be in a better mind frame for writing. Whether I'll have time to do so I honestly don't know. I've changed my major at varsity (again) so now I have to take a whole lot of extra classes and stuff. This should, however, be the year that I finish my BA degree so woohoo! Anyhow, enough rambling.

Age: 20

Sex: Female

Country of residence: South Africa

Occupation: 1. Studying to be a forensic anthropologist.

2. I'm a dressage rider who gets paid to fix other people's problem horses

3. I'm a barlady at a local Goth club

Favourite ships: Draco/Ginny (Duh), Remus/Hermione, Snape/Hermione

Refuse to read ships: Any form of slash, Harry/Ginny, Sirius/Hermione (no way in hell that would happen)

Stories I'm actually working on: Tarnished Gold, Demon Kiss and Ever Dream

Favourite bands: Wow, that's hard. I love Goth music in general(downside of being a Goth and all) but I think I could narrow my fav bands down to: Joy Division, Fields of the Nephilim (I actually met one of the guys from this band while I was in the UK. It was awesome!), Sisters of Mercy (Andy Eldritch is a god), the older The Awakening stuff, Lestat (wow!), The 69 Eyes, NightWish, Lacuna Coil and Type O Negative.

Pet hates: That idiot Marlin Manson, the gummy-Goth band 'Him' (can you say commercial trash?), Goths with pointy, thick sticks up their asses, Freud, Freud and more Freud,the fact that it's really hard to find new Goth music in S.A., people who think they know more about LotR than me, Harry Potter 'movie fans' who've never bothered to read the books, and let us not forget: the sun.

Favourite movies: Donnie Darko, Gladiator, Million Dollar Baby, the Blade Trilogy, most movies with vampires in them, Blood Diamonds (although Leonardo's accent sucks), Mistress of Spices, Empire Records.

Favourite TV Show: Bones (I love it, I love it, I love it)

Favourite books: Harry Potter (duh), The Wheel of Time Series, Lord of the Rings, Morning Star by David Gemmel, Jan Siegel's 'Prospero's Children', 'Dragon Charmer' and 'Witch's Honour', Pat Conroy's 'Beach Music', the original DragonLance stuff, The Mists of Avalon.

Favourite poets: Leonard Cohen, Sylvia Plath, Anne Rich

Favourite quotes: 'The Vietman War: When a global super power (America) got their asses kicked by a bunch of people in black sleeping gear.' - Prof. J Sharp

'Don't turn you're back on fear' and 'Some may wish never to be born, wasting the dawn' - Both by the excellent band The 69 Eyes

'We are the dark romatics and our dreams are where the poets go' - The Awakening

'I'm so Goth even my skin is black' -Benidict Winkler,who is the wackiest person on earth

Favourite joke: How many Goths does it take to change a lightbulb?

Answer 1: 13. One to screw in the lightbulb and 12 others to tell him how Goth he looks while doing it.

Answer 2: Light? Who the f#k needs light?

Current love interest: Still my beloved James. I miss him dearly, especially as the 13th of May is getting closer and closer, reminding me that it's been almost a year since he died. "Though our bodies fail, and wherever our souls may travel, I love you, now and forever."

Corpus nocte,

Katyla