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Photograph of my ugly mug taken in October 2005 during a Thames cruise. Not the best of pictures but there we are, at least I have clothes on.
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[edit] About Me
Hello. Psicorps is my pen name (see below), and I am now back in Birmingham, United Kingdom again, with my husband Alan. We married in June 2006 after 6½ years together. When we get to 10 years, I reckon we'll have a party with a nice big fat cake and a few glases of fino!
I am about to restart my studies with the Open University. I have the Tattoo of Rassilon on my right shoulder.
[edit] My work
I am presently employed by a large insurance company, and I have just begun a secondment dealing with casualty and personal injury claims, which I am finding very interesting indeed -- although nobody else will. If you don't believe me go and read about vicarious liability and ex turpi causa non oritur actio.
[edit] Currently reading
The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. A magnificent book which was a truly appallingly unimaginably bad film. I have about 30 books ready to read after this one.
Previous book: The Seville Communion, also by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. I have read it about a dozen times before, and I love it. I recently had to buy a replacement copy as my existing copy was falling apart, although I prefer the cover of the old copy.
[edit] Currently playing
In my MP3 player at the moment I have a BBC Radio 3 play called Andalus, based on a novel by Jason Webster.
[edit] Interests
[edit] TV and radio
[edit] Other interests
- Flamenco - Big fan of Estrella Morente, Enrique Morente, Vicente Amigo, Paco Peña, José Mercé.
- Genealogy - I have been researching my family tree for around a year now.
- Biographies
- Domestic travel - Bournemouth, Blackpool, London, Bristol
- Overseas travel - Berlin, northern Tenerife, and Andalucía, but away from the popular British areas such as the Costa del Sol.
- Languages - notably Spanish (fluentish) but also German
- World religions - particularly Anglicanism and Judaism. Although I would presently describe myself as agnostic I have an academic interest in the Metropolitan Community Church, largely steming from their inclusive stance towards LGBT members. I have in the past been a member of the LGCM.
- Writing fiction.
[edit] Groups and memberships
I am a member and keen supporter of Amnesty International, the Liberal Democrats, the British Humanist Association. Formerly a member of the British Interplanetary Society and briefly a member of Mensa, however given the unpleasant elitism of the latter, I am with Groucho Marx (and decline to continue belonging to a club that would have me as a member).
[edit] Wikipedia and me
[edit] Contributions
At the moment I am still finding my feet on Wikipedia but I am enjoying doing minor edits to both improve pages and also learn the ropes - in particular to Torchwood-related pages. However I have made significant contributions to Fall Out (episode of The Prisoner), Puerto de la Cruz, Matthew Waterhouse, Marc Sinden, Estrella Morente, Triana (Seville), Jaime Gil de Biedma, León Felipe, Gabriel Alomar, Manuel Altolaguirre, Manuel Andújar, Eduardo Asquerino, Miguel de Barrios, Manuel Bretón de los Herreros and José Manuel Caballero.
[edit] Frequently used reference articles
This is more for my own convenience than anything else, it's a handy index to all the junk that I look up relatively frequently. My sandbox is here.
[edit] Spanish stuff
- Andalusia, Seville (province), Seville, Sevilla (Spanish version)
- Utrera
- Andalusian Spanish, and therefore Ceceo
- Caló (Spanish Romani)
- Flamenco
- Estrella Morente from the Spanish Wikipedia
[edit] Other stuff
- List of colors
- List of Torchwood episodes
- List of Lost episodes
- Cross
- User:Avazina/Bible on Homosexuality
- Wikipedia:Userboxes
[edit] Reinstated articles
- These are reinstated copies of two articles I wrote which was originally deleted. They are both about pubs that my maternal grandparents ran during the 1950s. That's democracy for you. A pity but there we are, however now they are available again for anyone interested.
I have also recently signed up at Wikipedia:WikiProject LGBT studies, looking forward to doing some good work over there.
[edit] Vandalism
One of my pet hates on Wikipedia is vandalism, and I've been spending a bit of time lately reverting malicious edits. It's time-consuming, and until Wikipedia has a change in policy of allowing unregistered users to edit pages, there may be no real solution in sight.
I will always revert vandalised pages wherever I can, but if people wipe out their talk pages to remove warnings etc, I generally leave that to others, unless the user page belongs to a user whose act of vandalism I've just cleaned up. Otherwise time is precious and therefore life too short.
My record so far was on 13 March 2007 when I reverted 37 vandalised articles... someone give me a barnstar, please!
For Lent this year I am attempting to give up swearing. A tall order given that I have to talk to the general public on the telephone, but I reckon I'm in with a reasonable chance. I did think about giving up chocolate but I've got to be reasonable!
So every time I eff or blind, it's 20p in a jar, and it'll go to charity at Easter. Let's see how long that ****ing lasts...
[edit] Origin of the name 'Psicorps'
The name comes from the science fiction series Babylon 5. Psi Corps is the name of the fictional organisation on Earth which purportedly regulates and controls the standards and behaviour of all registered telepaths. However the organisation does not always meet its own high standards, and considers itself and its 'members' superior to 'normals' (or 'mundanes'), i.e., non-telepaths.
