I love Nicki. I’ve been friends with her for years and found out that we are both obsessed with No Doubt in a train station car park whilst drinking some vodka at the age of 15. LOVE X



Who?
Nicola Dawson. I ramble a lot about nothing of interest.

What do you do for a living?
I’m a search engine marketing exec for an insurance company that’s down with the over 50s, yo! My life revolves around Google, Yahoo and MSN (GYM) or my mate ‘Jim’ as I sometimes like to refer to them as. My fiancé probably thinks I’m having an affair.

Talk us through a day in the life of you…
Writing this has made me realise just how dull my life really is!

I roll out of bed at approx. 07.15 after having hit the ‘snooze’ button twice. I feed myself and my rabbits (Mr. Moustache and Carla Bruni), have a shower, get dressed, feel bad about having not moisturised my body, then hop in my car and drive 40ish minutes to Folkestone. I quickly scan through a couple of search blogs, check my email and the company’s search results from the day before and compile a to-do list for the day. I spend a fair amount of time on the phone with our search agency and yapping to my team about the latest goss, whether in be in real life (IRL) or on t’interwebz. I seem to be in meetings quite a lot with the various different product marketing managers where I update them on how their products are doing in terms of search and we come up with ways to optimise their campaigns for the coming week or so.
I leave the office at about 17:15 and am home by 18:00. I chat to the rabbits, make some dinner (i.e. I add sauce to some pasta), tweet, read blogs, watch TV and generally laze around especially on weeknights. I’m usually in bed by 23:30.


What…

Makes you cross?
The fact that my mum’s in constant pain and drugged up to her eyeballs because of Spinal Tuberculosis.

Makes you happy?
Sunshine, my pet rabbits and my wonderful fiancé, Ruari. #vom.

Whats…

Your most missed memory?
Spending time with my family in the States. It’s kinda bittersweet. I get the hole-in-chest feeling when I think about times I’ve spent with them. Certain smells remind me of America, as do any grape-flavoured sweets like Bobby’s Sour Pops. I don’t think that answered the question…

The last thing you bought?
A packet of Paracetamol. I got ID’d for it as well. I didn’t even know you had to be of a certain age to buy that stuff! I’m 25.

Where’s your favourite place to be?
In bed. But safe in the knowledge that my phone with access to the internet is nearby. Y’know, just in case.


I’m very good at…
Losing things.

But I’d like to be very good at..
Mental maths.

Three…

Words you use all the time…
Yo; vom; whatevz. (I have the vocabulary of a 15 year old!)

Most visited websites…
twitter.com
searchengineland.com
blogger.com.

Most listened to albums…
I’m gutted because my 160gb iPod decided to reformat itself on my birthday so not only did I lose all of my music, but I also lost all of my uni work, photos and important documents as I’d been using it as an external hard-drive for the past three years. My old laptop where the original files were stored had died a few months previously. Basically, what I’m saying is that I don’t have much music to hand anymore and I’ve been too lazy to burn my CDs onto my new laptop. Plus, my ipod used to be able to sync itself to multiple computers but now it only lets me sync to one at a time. It now has the contents of my fiancé’s itunes on there.

I used to listen to Fall Out Boy- From Under the Cork Tree a lot. I just never got sick of it. I need to re-buy it.

BMTH- There is a Hell… became an instant fave. I never really liked them much before this record. I’ve also jumped onto the ‘I love Oli Sykes’ bandwagon relatively recently.

Weezer- Blue album. Say it ain’t so still gives me goosebumps.

Top Cities…
Canterbury, Glasgow, London.

If you could be asked any question in an interview, what would it be?
Would you go out with Matthew Gray Gubler? To which I would answer “Hell, YES!”

You can read more about Nicki and her life here.
Or check out her Fiances band ‘November Coming Fire’ here.