Info
Hellen
is a creature made of sparkles and magic.
I was born in Germany, lived very briefly in the USA, and for the last decade or so in England. My hobby when speaking English is watching people attempt to place my accent.
Archaeology is my first love; I got a BA in Archaeology from Durham University in 2009, and just completed an MA in Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East at UCL. My main interests are trade (especially naval), merchants, and inter-cultural contact and exchange. Although I wrote my dissertation on the Eastern Mediterranean, I’m trying to branch out into European archaeology to learn more about my own past.
Apart from archaeology, I nerd out hardcore about science, speculative fiction, and languages. I speak German and English (and frequently Denglish), a little bit of French, and am learning Japanese. On my to do list currently are Greek, Arabic, and perhaps a North Germanic language.
私は四年間から日本語を習っています。最近、大学院に入ったから、あまり勉強の時間がありません。時々Ｌａｎｇ－８に日本語でブログをします。よければ、日記を読んで、間違いを直してください。
Other things I enjoy include: books, putting “too much” salt on my food, comics, robots, feminism/social justice, statistics, worldbuilding and conlanging, queering everything, ice tea, critical thinking, gender and sexuality history, outdated internet memes, games (video, board, and tabletop role-playing flavours), complaining about English bread, and paying with exact change.
The Random Planet
is a website caused to come into existance by Hellen in 2004, whenceforth it has contributed little to the good of humanity in general.
All contents of the website are Copyright © 2011 Hellen Grünefeld, except for characters, settings, etc depicted in fanworks, art on link-banners to other websites, and where otherwise noted. It is currently running on WordPress, with a theme created by me.
Contact
Email: hellen@grunefeld.net
Other places to find me:
Blogs: Twitter is for cool links, short thoughts, and complaining. My Dreamwidth and LJ mirror each other and the blog entries on this website. My most recent art goes up on Zombie Contingency Plans.
Other stuff: Interesting reads and cool links are saved on Delicious. Check out LibraryThing for books I’ve read, and Steam and Xbox Live for gaming stuff.
I also have wishlists on Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk, and ThinkGeek.