Hello! My name is Gisela Francisco. I was born in Cascais, Portugal and now I’m living in Paris with my lovely husband Telmo and my two cats, Tobias and Pablo.
You can check out my photos on Flickr or view a selected few at GiselaFrancisco.com. You can also check out my blog about photography called PhotoDudette.com
80 random things about me:
- when I was almost 3, my sister was born and I said that that was the happiest day of my life;
- I love cats and I’ve lived with them all my life;
- I’m the only person I feel comfortable with taking pictures of myself;
- I’m surprised by the way most people see animals;
- I love pizza with pepperoni and hate pizza with peaches;
- from 7 till 10 years old I was required to study music;
- I was always surprised with cliques and factions and I still don’t understand why people need to behave that way;
- I don’t hate other people;
- I faint every time I have to take blood because of my fear of needles;
- I believe plains are technical marvels;
- I have a doll house (1/12) but I’m still assembling it;
- can’t see how my life would be without the internet;
- I detest social rules;
- when I was little I thought I was very intelligent;
- I’ve never had lots of friends because I was shy;
- I dislike the media stupidification;
- I would love to write a novel but I’m convinced I can’t write;
- when I was little I wanted to become a gardener or an architect;
- I’ve wanted to be a painter;
- I’ve wanted to be a sculptor;
- in school I was always a mediocre student and the older I get the less I regret it;
- when I was little I imagined how it would be like to be interviewed about my life;
- I’m convinced I exist for the entertainment of the people around me;
- I hate it when people say that they “like all kinds of music”;
- everybody who likes me says I have a terrible temper;
- I have no desire to travel to Brazil;
- I like sashimi;
- I love David Lynch’s movies in particular “Mulholland Drive” and “Blue Velvet”;
- I hate pseudo-intellectual movies, literature, music and theater;
- I’m interested it the history of women through the ages;
- I would like to eat breakfast every morning;
- I try not to eat things with sugar;
- aesthetically I like the USA in the 40′s and 50′s;
- I like historic novels;
- I like England’s history;
- I always exaggerate my stories for the sake of impact;
- I have crooked teeth and I don’t mind;
- I forget a lot;
- I think we can’t pay security with freedom;
- I have never broken any bones;
- I detest cold;
- I detest heat;
- I detest the sound of the wind;
- I like thunderstorms;
- I like the Victorian era and Charles Dickens;
- I’m older than my siblings;
- I like flowers, in particular violets and lilies. I also like tulips and daisies;
- I dislike complicated flowers like “birds of paradise”;
- I like 80% chocolate;
- I like anime, hentai and manga;
- I like to travel;
- I like cherries and things with cherry flavour;
- I love real mashed potatoes with butter and nutmeg;
- I like card games and board games;
- I like video games, in particular adventure, turn based strategy and RTS;
- I like depressing music;
- Humanity depresses me;
- I love cocktails and my favorite is a Sidecar;
- I love to cook;
- I love photography;
- I wear glasses since I was 2;
- At 18 I started to wear contact lenses;
- I like (yes, I like it) Little House on the Prairie;
- And Upstairs Downstairs;
- I’ve painted my hair dark blue, black and dark red;
- I like the smell of Nivea;
- I don’t use products from companies that test on animals apart from the products I really have to, like contact lens liquid;
- I like mystery books like Agatha Christie’s;
- I don’t read horror books and I don’t watch horror movies;
- I like to read biographies;
- I love trees but have some sort of fear of forests and botanical parks;
- I crochet since I was a kid and in high school I did it everyday on the train and in class;
- I like lists;
- I like corsets;
- I have 2 cats;
- I’m an immigrant;
- I dislike the word “expat”;
- I like online shopping;
- I read a lot;
- I like tea and it’s paraphernalia;
- I like collections;
- I collect snow globes and die-cast toys;
- I like science fiction but I didn’t until a few years ago;
- I like BD and comics;
- I like books;
- Japan is fascinating;
- I dislike manipulators, in particular the sneaky kind;
- I love to buy flowers;
- I love to receive interesting mail;
- I try not to use adverbs because of Stephen King.