Winter Walk

Joanne Kiernan

Birthday: 8th June 1969

City of birth: Wakefield

City: Ferrybridge, Near Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK

Interests:
Ohhh I hate those long lists... a basic snapshot would be... going to the gym...swimming, walking through windswept countryside, tramping across isolated foreign parts to look at some obscure archaeological site.... genetics, neuroscience, physics and lots of stuff,........ especially playing.

Favourite TV-Shows:
Dr Who           Strictly Come Dancing

Dexter             Chuck

Heroes

House

This list looks really bad....I don't watch that much tv! In fact I love sky+.

Favourite Books and Reading:

One of my favourite authors Kate Atkinson.  I have just completed her most recent book When Will There Be Good News. Brilliant book and as always the way she winds all the stories and characters together in their own personal psychological interplay, mmm delicious. Kate also has the skill of leaving that final twist of uncertainty, its intriguing and keeps you reading. 

I also love: Norman Mailer 'The Castle in the Forest' and Elizabeth Kostova 'The Historian'

I have been reading Gilgamesh and the early creation stories.  Started Principa Mathematica....mmm Bertrund Russell...like his mind....His mind in Brad Pitt? Perfect Male?

I am revisiting Penrose....I JUST ADORE Penrose.

Favourite music:
Just about everything.  See my playlist.

Favourite drink:
No comment (lol...I keep getting told off for no comment....so water...lol)

Favourite meal:

I am a platypus so ...ermmm fish.  (I am quite an adventurous platypus so most things really)

Favourite countries for traveling:
Anything European,  historical and archaeological.  My celtic soul loves the sea, but it has to be a windswept, rugged coastline (prefably with rock pools and the chance of finding fossils).

Favourite quotes:

• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

• "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." Douglas Adams (1952—2001)

• "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." Werner von Braun