About Myself

Hi. I’m Amanda. I don’t get paid enough at the not-for-profit organisation for which I work as a general dirty red commie do-gooder communicator. I like to read, travel, and eat dessert. I’m learning to love to cook, but fear that I will never be as good a cook as my mother. I plan to steal every chubby-cheeked baby that I come across. My life goal is to own a pair of tights in every colour of the rainbow.

High on the list of things I like would be obsessively analysing and plotting every aspect of my career path, being stingy with my money, being an anally retentive organiser and clean freak, and embarrassing you in public. I have a tendency to turn nouns into adjectives and verbs, thanks to Joss Whedon’s influence. You are all jealous of my cat Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy, who just happens to be the most handsome cat in the world.

For more about me, either add my blog to your feed reader (it’s the best way of getting to know me), or read these questions from my readers: here and here. If you need to contact me, try at acchamanda at gmail dot com, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook or LiveJournal.

About The Site

“Jingwen” is phoneticisation of my Chinese name, meaning “quiet and cultured”. By giving me this name, my parents hoped that they would instill these same qualities in my personality – they were clearly misguided.

Regarding comments, write whatever you like – I do however, reserve the right to edit or delete your comment as I see fit. I only delete comments from anonymous commenters, or people with multiple aliases, so do use a genuine name/email combination to ensure your comment is approved. If you’ve commented, and your comment doesn’t show up within forty-eight hours, chances are that it was caught by my spam filter and deleted mistakenly. Email me with your comment, and I’ll add it to the entry in question.

Theme is courtesy of the wonderful Nellie Sarjant. My domain is courtesy of Namecheap, and hosting is courtesy of E-starr.