www.acidsmile.co.uk

About me

My name is Maria and I was born in Southwest Greece, more specifically in Pyrgos . I am of Greek nationality, Canadian citizenship and UK residency. I have lived in Canada and Greece, and for the last 11 years, in various different places in the United Kingdom. The last two or so of these years I have been in a relationship with Mark, aka The One, and we have been [happily I must point out] living together for most of this time. I currently work as a Web Designer at bluestorm new media in Hull.

Who am I?

I am a web designer by trade and self confessed geek by personality. I spend most of my waking hours in front of a computer, whether it is my pc at work or my mac at home. I like coding and designing and trying to organise the display of information, not only in a way that looks good, but in a way it makes sense. This might be a side effect of the “information engineering” part of my university course back when I was young and impressionable.

I really enjoy taking a site map and a photoshop visual and breathing life into it. I like the challenge and overcoming obstacles to come to the end of the line to a working website that “works!” Thus quite often I can be seen at work doing my little victory dance in my chair when a little bit of code is working like expected, swearing if something isn’t or lovingly stroking my monitor cooing “my baby” at a finished project. [Thank god I work with fellow understanding geeks and they haven’t commited me yet, although they all consider me crazy]

Other interests?

Well I do some things that do not require a keyboard and mouse. I cook, when I have time and people to share it with. I listen to drum n bass and house music and some greek stuff when I’m feeling homesick. I “make things” (as well as break things but that’s another story) meaning I like crafts. I draw with REAL pencils on REAL paper, much better than I do on illustrator. I read and I do that a lot, whether it’s trade magazines, greek or english books, even the local paper when I’ve run out of stuff. I don’t ever watch TV. At least not the square black thing in the living room. Which is really a lie since I follow a few greek tv series and some american ones like “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Ugly Betty”, “Greek” on online tv.

Silly games, split personalities.

When I’m not doing anything of the above and I’m not working I play WoW . Depending on the mood I’m a cute little midget gnome warlock on the Alliance side or a hot blood elf mage on the Horde side. Since I don’t have the time for raids anymore I play just for the fun of it, and that’s probably why I have 11 characters of various factions, classes and races. :P