User Profile

i am the auroran sunset, known offline as fennel. i am a twenty-six year old single male aspiring political writer. i'm just over six foot, or about 183cm, tall. depending on the day of the week, i weigh between 65 and 70kg. for the japanese readers: my bloodtype is a-positive; i don't know my birth weight. my birthday is the tenth of march. i don't smoke and i loath to be around smoke and smokers. [i also don't drink and tend to avoid caffiene, but this is more from bloody-mindedness than any sort of fanatisism. / five years of tee-totalness was enough to prove i could, so i now drink again, but rarely and not much. the caffiene avoidance lasted three years; again i keep things within sensible bounds now i'm back on the juice. ^_^)

i am an oxford university graduate (M.A. Computation) living in voluntary exile in france. before that i spend almost four years in voluntary exile in japan; one day i hope to return to that lovely land. i have negative intent of ever returning to my native england. i expect that most of the rest of my life will be spent in japan and america/australia. almost all of my writing relates to politics, ethics or the japanese language. my politics are explained at length at the website for my political party, the emancipation party. you can find my writings on japanese here.

i currently working full-time at abelard.org as a writer, technician and a few other things. i relax/enjoy myself by studying, reading, watching dvds, going for long walks, taking photographs, watching pretty girls, singing, roller-blading and exercising (mainly karate, running, swimming and badminton). i am fairly constantly listening to music of some sort, but don't listen to music as an activity in of itself.

now that my political and other "interesting" writing is going on abelard.org, i post very little here. mostly it will be occasional personal updates.


a little about my personality.. i tend to be excessively shy and cautious. i am unreasonably unconfident of the opinions others hold of me. i am extremely efficient and confident of my abilities, especially when it comes to learning and integration of new information and ideas. i am very curious and thus get to know a lot more than most; i consider my wish to know more than others as my main conceit. i am highly decisive. i have a calm, amused and wondering outlook on the world. i am ruthless - i will suffer dishonesty once and once only from any source; i will not suffer emotion to get in the way of a necessary decision. i am extremely idealistic, despite a low opinion of most of humanity: i expect, and act on, standards far above the norm. i am probably a workaholic, although i usually think of myself as lazy. i tend to not trust that people actually like me, so have trouble making close friends. i tend to avoid simple aquaintances as a waste of time. i am a perfectionist constantly attempting to temper that extreme. i do not tend to trust my memory, or much else. i don't consider myself a naturally nice person, but the reality is that i am fairly consistently nice because i consider being nice in my long-term self-interest. i long for love, but don't believe i am capable of disconnecting my brain/ruthlessness to that degree. i am pretty much content, but constantly striving for some nebulous 'more' that i doubt i will ever achieve. what i want most in a friend is kindness, honesty and appreciation, but i tend to be disbelieving, unsettled and unsure how to respond when i receive these things.

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