ZELLAH herself
If I had to sum myself up in a few words, I would probably choose creative, intelligent, eccentric, whimsical, changeable and volatile. For the first 19 years of my life I was the epitome of 'teacher's pet'. I was pushed hard by everyone, excelled at whatever I put my mind to and was generally seen as a 'brain'. For the following 6 years I geared down a notch, after realising there was more to life than study and pleasing people. Still, I kept a pretty good record of getting whichever jobs I applied for and doing well in them, when my brain didn't get in the way.
Because of all this, it was unthinkable to me when my psyche rebelled, went into complete meltdown and left me with no job, no confidence and a large doctor's prescription. My mental health had always been a problem for me but in 2005 everything went to hell.
Since then, I have been effectively unable to work, in a constant battle with several support services, banks and the NHS. After 2 years of just living, one tends to start going a bit bonkers and I have promised myself that, even if I can't get myself back into the corporate nine-to-five working world again, I will do something with my life and it had better be soon.
My current plans are:
Get this website up an running. It's good practice.
Start work on a website to promote both mine and my sister's skills.
Set up a VA partnership with my sister so I can work from home.
Get some more freelance design/promotion jobs, even if just on a voluntary basis and build up my portfolio.
The following go towards somewhat summarising who I am and what I do:
Film, book and music junkie.
Wannabe actress and writer.
Shit hot at anything admin-based and pretty proficient with anything to do with desktop publishing and related graphic design.
Web proficient, if a little rusty in the actual skills department.
An avid LARPer (that's Live Action Roleplay to the uninitiated). My LARP of choice is 'Maelstrom'. Think high-magic, colonial, cross-country pantomime.