User:Elena the Quiet

In the words of the devil: Busy, busy, busy
To paraphrase some random blog I found:
 * the time needed to fulfill my big bucket full of ideas/projects is greater than the time granted by a happy healthy life, a busy job and the time needed to keep sane. Life is all about choices and focus. One of the main reasons why I don't publish that often.

I don't have many vices or addictions and am generally rather quiet & small, but the temptation to spend some quality time here is enormous to me. This is a temptation I must resist in order to achieve my projects which are more personal to me 1.

To mangle horribly a colloquial: when my application for the extra life goes through I'll spend as much time as my heart actually desires here.

Raison d'etre
I'm a big fan of information.

My favourite thing in the world is learning things.

Therefore I like wikipedia.

I work at the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University, though not as an academic.

Firstly...
I wish I was authoritative on more things so could contribute something truly meaningful. Maybe one day I will be and will be able to.

My Home: RSPhys/ANU
I'm deeply impassioned by the place where I work. I truly respect the researchers and research being conducted here. It is great and they are great and I hope to assist with the documentation of their feats.

Therefore I intend to join the ranks of those (sometime closet) Wikipedia fans around here who work on entries pertaining to Canberra, Australian National University, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering and any other local odds and ends that might come across as interesting on the day.

Fiji Coup
I'm currently very interested in the political situation in Fiji: 2006 Fijian coup d'état attempt.

This is actually for the extremely insipid reason that "we're" getting married there - just our luck between our organising and purchases everything and the actual she-bang, the coup actually occurs. Not being of the disposition to take this lightly or half-heartedly I went quite out of my way to get an understanding of this situation, and having collected so much information thought I might as well document it.

My usually sheepish ego wants to add that on 4 December I wrote the introductory paragraph to this article and that this was a completely original composition based on my observation of the situation. This is really my very first ever publicly documented composition and at the time of writing I was pleased with it as being representative of my understanding.

I am now even more delighted that as at 22:59, 6 December 2006 (UTC), and after 100's of edits what I wrote of the introductory paragraph is still verbatim as I wrote it, it was changed in that the second paragraph about the race/religion element of the conflict was added, but paras 1, 3 & 4 are as I wrote them on Tuesday (c'mon it's my first article and I'm proud of myself). I also added bits and piece throughout the rest of the article much of which is still there also.

The article is a Good articles nominee and 2006 Wikipedia CD Selection.

Arts in Australia
I come from a long broad line of crazy arts people and am purportedly the sensible one amongst them. I have a keen interest in Canberra Glassworks.

Snowboarding
Standard Films

I also voluntarily got involved in untangling the crazy Jeremy Jones thing which was nuts to figure out - still might not be there though!

The illustrious fiancé
The illustrious fiancé has a webdev company and I am honour-bound to leave its url wherever I go insofar as it is possible: AEW studios.

This is also my (website) work, his actual work.

The Five Pillars for my reference
These are good, and I want to keep there here to remind me (original: Five_pillars).