Vanessa Meachen, Dedicated Amateur

I’ve done so many ‘About Me’ pages in my lifetime, and they’re all different, and the me I was then is never the me I am now :)

Anyhoo. I’m in my late thirties, I work in the not-for-profit and philanthropic sector and I live in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia with my long-time partner and our cat. I like knitting, reading, spending way too much time on Teh Internets and hanging out with good friends. I also like travel. I enjoy seeing patterns, Finding Out Stuff and then Telling People Stuff.

I’ve been online since the early 90s, when I was finishing uni. Online communities – first in the person of Usenet news – drew me in. At various times in my lifeĀ  -online and off – I’ve become passionately interested in something and immersed myself in it for a time. These interests include, but have not been limited to: paganism; The X-Files; Tudor monarchs; the Titanic; frugal living (although that was out of necessity); Lord of the Rings; The Goodies… etc, etc.

The current obsessive interests are knitting, travel, English history and trying to identify the unidentified. But as I always do, I’ll keep making myself up as I go.