who am i?

hee hee that sounds like this post is going to be all introspective when it's actually just going to be about stuff i like (like telescopes)

i am Sarah and i am a proudly proud South African citizen and i live in the wonderfully wonderful city of Johannesburg. i am now 22 - i turned another year older on 5 July- but i still tell people that i am 21 for some reason... i think it might be a latent quarter life crisis. i am studying and whilst i love it, i'm having a bit of an issue contemplating doing my masters next year. it'll be my 5th year in a row at varsity and considering i came to uni straight after school, it'll be my 17th year running at an academic institution. and it's starting to eat up my brain. and i have grey hairs. no really. i do. i pull them out.

i'm studying international relations and my main aspects of interest are counter terrorism, refugee integration, diplomacy (ie to be an ambassador and live in a foreign country and throw embassy parties!) human security and genocide prevention. i grew up wanting to be a fireman and a war photographer (at the same time... i multi task) but after realising i attract fire (my ex neighbour's house once burst into flames at 3am) and after studying media for 3 years as an undergrad and becoming disillusioned, i'm thinking of clearing landmines for the UN (yes, i am very accident prone)

i have one brother - Mike aka Stinky, Wufflet, Poodle and many other names that make him just as mad as the previous 3 ;) and a hoarde of wonderful friends who i will refer to on a regular basis for they make up a huge part of my life (many of them stick around because i pay them a salary to do so)

i love doing a lot of things, many of them not very well because my attention span is about 10 seconds. but some things i have stuck with are photography, writing, singing (loudly), watching the news (yes that makes me sound as nerdy as anything, but i lo-o-ove the news! it's exciting! But i only watch Sky News.), playing with my puppies, havng coffee and lunch with people i love and giving people nicknames - like Sunglass Tan Boy, Chewy Pen Boy, O'Hottie, Ipod Boy... etc etc... if you ever read my blog and you know me and you hink that you are one of these people please let me know because then my nicknames are obviously not as sleuthy as i'd like them to be! i LOVE theatre and all that cultural stuff but i also like girly pleb stuff where everybody has a happy ending. i love politics because i find it funny when stupid people make speeches. i love travelling... don't do it enough though.

i do a lot of things for organisations... mainly because i can't say no and because i love saying 'i'm so sorry i can't come, but i have a meeting' ...

i watch a lot of sport ... hmmm... i just got a guilty feeling that i'm talking too much about myself here (like a bad first date) and then remembered HEY this is MY blog it is about ME haha hahahahahah. I'm catholic and therefore have a lot of guilt to deal with.

that's all for now. Not because i've run out of things to say, i'm very verbose, but because i have other things that i logged onto the net to do... like research for my honours dissertation that's due in a few weeks... sigh... procrastination.

Love Sarah x