Another intro post.

[Kirstin Innes]

Hello. Hello. 
THE OLD CROWD  INTRO

***Name: Kirstin Innes

***Nicknames/IDs: Kirstini on HPfGU, kirst_inn on
Livejournal. I'm not very orignal.

***Age: 25

***Family: 
A doctor mum, nurse brother and socialist agitator
grandmother. Also three beloved twentysomething
housemates and a rotund one-eyed cat. Currently single
but dating.

***Home:
A big roomy flat on the top floor of an old tenement
on top of a hill in Glasgow, Scotland. 

***Birthday, Place of Birth:
29th September, Edinburgh, Scotland. Ive travelled a
whole 45 minutes up the M8 

***Education/Job/Role in Life etc:
MA in Scottish Literature, MLitt in Narratology and
Discourse, which is a fancy way of saying stories.
Turned my back on academia at this point, now work as
press and communications manager for a
theatre/club/art gallery. I am very, very happy doing
this, but do spend a bit of time denying vehemently
that I work in PR. I do a little freelance reviewing
(restaurants, theatre, books) and academic writing on
the side.

***Other things we might want to know about you:
I intend to write a novel at some point. I have been
intending to write the same novel for six years now,
though, and havent got further than five short
chapters and some question marks. 

***First contact with Harry Potter: 

A fairly new boyfriend got sick in March 2001 and I
looked after him. While he was sleeping I needed
something to read, raided his bookshelf and curled up
on his sofa with PS to see what all the fuss was
about. In three days Id ploughed through all four and
got hooked, possibly to the detriment of my nursing
abilities.

***Favourite Potter things (books, characters, ships,
fics, objects
d'Art, general enthusing): 

Favourite books are POA and I think HBP. Favourite
characters are Lupin, Ginny, Sirius, the Weasleys, and
the Trio when interacting. I find Snapes character
arc fascinating, but I dont like him and Im never
especially fond of Snape scenes. Not a massive
shipper, but I would always have said R/H and H/G
because those are characters I love working properly
together, so was delighted to see both of those come
about. I also like broomsticks, talking portraits,
scenes at the Burrow or in the Gryffindor Common Room,
watching the characters grow and develop, the way Jo
mixes poignancy and barbs, and probing into
Pottersverse morality. Favourite things about the
books generally are the humour- one liners, side
comments and detail, the flawed humanity of every
character, and that the reader is allowed time and
space to explore an other, massive world. 
I tend to seize up whenever Dobby makes an entrance,
though, and Ive never been especially convinced by
Tonks. I also like finding new fan art sites, but I
dont like Mary Grand Pres illustrations at all. 


***Extent of Potter obsession: 

Mild to moderate, and concerned mainly with the books
themselves. I was a List Elf, sometime Filker and
enthusiastic TBayer on HPfGU for a while, although
Ive been on a years hiatus. Ive recently noticed
symptoms starting to kick in again  obsessive
checking of the Leaky Cauldron, Mugglenet and the
Lexicon for updates whilst at work, searching out art
sites, rereading old filks, frustration with other
posters in the fandom who dont quite seem to get
it...
I realised that I needed a focused outlet for my
renewed post-HBP mania, so I approached Neil with the
intention of getting myself re-invited, and it worked!
I have to say, though, that Ive never been especially
impressed with fanfic; Im suspicious of fanon
characterisations, and there are some excesses of the
fandom that I find rather troubling, perhaps because I
prefer to keep my theorising canon-based and within
the realms of Rowling plausability.
***Other interests/activities:
Theatre, contemporary literature, eating out,
electronica, country, funk and soul music (I know 
odd combination), costume design, cooking for friends,
going out dancing, travelling. I only moved to Glasgow
in January, so Im really enjoying belonging to a new
city.

***Current/recent reading:
Although the last two weeks have been mostly taken up
with the Grand Potter readathon, other books Ive
picked up recently include Extremley Loud and
Incredibly Close by Jonathon Safran Foer (enjoyable,
but nothing new), The Philanderer by Stanley Kauffman
(Im really enjoying this, even though it goes against
most of my feminist principles), Psychoraag by Suhil
Saahdi (great at first but got bogged down in a
100-page satiric hallucination towards the end) and
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (very good but I
didnt like the disdain had for her characters).

***Current/recent listening:
Candi Staton, Bobbie Gentry, the Glimmer Twins, Riton.


***Current/recent viewing:
I havent been watching very much television. We were
recently given cable for free and now it always seems
to be on music channels. Ive just seen Napolean
Dynamite on DVD and Festival at the cinema, and both
of those were great. 



	
	
		
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