Every personal site should have a part where the owner gives a bit of information about themselves. No, seriously.

I have no intention of placing a picture of myself on the web just yet, for fear of turning up on Fugly.net or else being used to frighten small children, therefore a cursory rundown of the inner-Marj will have to suffice! :)

[perhaps]

For those with lots of time on their hands, I have started to keep a diary which may well become a testament to how little of a life/grip on reality I really have (that would make me normal, then).

Hard to say, but he opinions and measurements of others must count for something...

Spot the deliberate mistakes...

Some people quite like me, others don't. The latter are merely sent to try us!

I have a wide variety and a pleasing number of close friends. I even know some people with web sites.

I have no idea about Coarse Geometry and Asymptotic Dimension, but I did help with the commas and bits of usage in someone's PhD thesis on the topic...

I am not this Marjory (although I do like jewellery...).

I have never been to the Everglades.

I was born in the same town as Pet Marjory at least.

Herman Wouk never wrote a book about me.

I cannot speak Dutch.

I am, boringly enough, a lovely round 0 on the Kinsey scale.

For those with a lot of time on their hands, here are my answers to one of those quizzes which get sent around in e-mail from time to time. Go on! Fill in one and send it to me! You know you want to!

For those with less time on their hands, here is the nutshell version.

Otherwise here is my answer to the Proust Questionnaire which you may prefer.

I am a Thrust-ship. I am small and tricky - where you think I am, I probably am not. I can work very fast, but I tend to go about things in a round about way, which often leaves me effectively standing still. I hate rocks. Bloody rocks. What Video Game Character Are You?

Better still, forget all of that stuff and make up your own mind on who and what I am by talking to me or even by mailing me!