Post by James Laurent on Dec 5, 2012 15:22:25 GMT -6
Status: "James Oliver Laurent has just been asked by his maman what he would like for Christmas. You’d think after 26 years she would know tea and/or books is the only answer I ever give."
Sex: Male
Birthday: 15th August 1986
Family:
Aimée Laurent (mother)
Jean-Luc Laurent (grandfather)
Hometown: Clifton, Bedfordshire
Current City: London
Relationship Status: Single
Interested In: Women
Looking For: Friends, Networking
Political Views: Labour
Religious Views: Protestant
Interests: Earl Grey tea, research, scones with clotted cream and jam, cigarettes, Renaissance poetry, codes
Music: Bon Iver, Mumford and Sons, Iron and Wine, Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes, Laura Marling, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Jake Bugg, Tom Waits, Simon and Garfunkel, U2
Books: Far too many to mention. I have a thing for Renaissance poetry and drama so I’m a sucker for a good bit of Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson or Donne.
Television: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Game of Thrones, QI, Have I Got News For You, Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe, Black Mirror, The Thick of It, The Armstrong and Miller Show
Favourite Quotations:
“My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest,
Where can we find two better hemispheres
Without sharp North, without declining West?
What ever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.”
(The Good-Morrow, John Donne)
“Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.”
(The Ecstasy, John Donne)
“Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows,
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.”
(Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare)
“And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die”
(Sunday Bloody Sunday, U2)
About Me:
Give me a cup of tea, a tin of biscuits, a pack of cigarettes, some musty old books and a code to crack and I’m as happy as a clam for days.
Education and Work:
June 2011- present
Researcher and technical supervisor
Auror Office, Department of Magical Law Enforcement
Ministry of Magic, London
June 2008- June 2011
Researcher and re-structuring supervisor
Département de loi magique
Ministère de Magie, Paris
September 2005- June 2008
Researcher and technician
Auror Office, Department of Magical Law Enforcement
Ministry of Magic, London
September 2004- September 2005
Intern
Department of Magical Law Enforcement
Ministry of Magic, London
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry '04
Contact Information:
Personal Email: jamesoliverlaurent@gmail.com