Hello all, I'm Roxana, will turn fabulous 40 y.o this year, I live in Romania - specifically in Craiova.
It's past midnight now, so no photos as of yet, but I'll try to find some flattering ones of my very unexciting city. Tomorrow, definitely tomorrow.
Some more unrequested info about me: I stumbled upon the proposal scene in Pride and Prejudice when I was 12, just Darcy casually leaning on that mantlepiece, with the haunted look in his eyes, without knowing where it's from or what it is. It took some browsing of the tv guide in the good old days before the internets, but I finally identified it and watched it all.
That same year, I found that Santa had hidden a crisp new copy of North and South at the bottom of my parents' wardrobe, in English (which they were hoping I would learn well). I read it clandestinelly, sitting on the floor, ears peeled to prevent detection, while being mildly disappointed that it wasn't the popular N&S tv-show about the American Civil War I was watching at the time.
Finished it, and put it back, without understanding all that much, but hooked already. Once Christmas came around, I read it again, and then again, almost each and every year since, together with Pride and Prejudice. And later Wuthering Heights, ofc, thought you really do have to be an adult to understand where that's going.
And that is how I became a hopeless romantic and have been walking around with my head in the clouds ever since.
I'm also a proper nerd, play World of Warcraft and love A Song of Ice and Fire, which is what inspired my user name, the Night's Watch vow: "Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death."
I thought it very representative of me on fanfic forums
I think N&S, being the first book I read in English, can be credited with leaning ms to my current job, of English translator, and Sailor Moon with the Italian translator half of it.
I talk a lot, sorry, should have said at the start.
P.S . All typos belong to my phone, which hated me, has autocorrect în 3 languages and never corrects anything. "În" means "in" - so now you know some Romanian.