Well, hi. My name is Jules, I’m a Leo, living in Perth, Western Australia with Tuxedo [a pseudonymn, obviously], my gorgeous, sweet, kind and completely wicked mad husband of 5+ years.
Email me: otterkat [at] pr3y [dot] com
Vital stats: 155 cm, 55 kg; ultra fair skin, green eyes, red-brown wavy hair; 38 years old but most people mistake me for 25 – one advantage of being small and baby-faced; piercings – ears and navel; tattoos – two inkings planned. I have a progressive connective disease called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or EDS [see About Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome in the left sidebar] which is very painful and restricts me a lot in what I do and my quality of life. Oh, and also a bunch of neurological weirdnesses and Coeliac Disease, a severe gluten allergy that requires special strict dietary management.
Loves: cooking and food and wine, hanging out with friends, reading, writing, my enormously fluffy Maine Coon Cats Aoife [pronounced Ee-fah, it’s Irish Gaelic] and Ruadhàn [pronounced Roo-ahn – also Irish Gaelic], horses and horse-riding [riding again after twenty years is interesting!], keeping fit with yoga, Pilates and weight training, travel, make up and girly stuff, movies, music, life in general.
Dislikes: pink cement trucks, yappy dogs, smug ignorant fundamentalist nutjobs, 4WD vehicles [SUVs to USAn readers] in the city, Republicans and the religious right, being kept waiting, telemarketers who call exactly at dinner-time, the smell of yeast and baking.
I am currently unable to work due to physical health issues [due to EDS], but manage to keep myself busy and entertained enough to avoid total insanity.
Occupation: diverse, and subject to change – I describe myself as a Superior Dogsbody. I’ve worked as a project manager, project support officer, researcher, policy writer, parliamentary assistant, administration officer in fields including politics, agricultural science, marine science, medicine/surgery, and education.
I like swear words and swearing, and living in Northern Ireland for a couple of years only developed and enhanced this particular penchant and extended my repertoire – I really am quite articulate with a decent vocabulary, I just happen to find swear-words highly satisfying. I also like talking about sex but will try to refrain from being too graphic and informative unless actually requested.
I use the Australian English spelling convention; hence colour not color, organise not organize, programme not program. Please try to deal with it.
And why Otterkat? I have used Otterkat as my online handle lo! these many years chatting online, so when I decided to start my own blog, it was the obvious choice. Otterkat is an amalgam of “otter” and “meerkat”, two of my favourite animals; another favourite animal, “cat”, is implied within the whole albeit incorrectly spelled.
