Bits about Me

In my last year of my undergraduate arts degree, I am a major in history and psychology. My primary research interest is the integration of psychological ideas into historical research and analysis: how perception, attitude, and behaviour interacted with and within a given historical setting is an intriguing question for me.

Besides working obsessively, shamelessly flattering myself, and abusing those around me, I also enjoy hosting dinner parties, going on picnics, and looking at pretty things. I have a relatively extensive knowledge of hamsters.

I have always known about the existence of bentos, but I never thought about making one myself until I encountered the bento livejournal community, bentolunch, in the spring of 2007. Seeing how members from various backgrounds devote themselves to the joy of bento-packing inspired me to learn to make bentos myself too. So far, so good.

Most of the patterns used throughout this blog as photo backgrounds or parts of the graphics are from Petit Pattern Book: Japanese Style. A minority of photo backgrounds is from Vintage Fabric from the States.

Photos of my bentos are also available on my Flickr.