Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG Edition

The physical

Your name: Named after Britain's most goth queen. Cool :)

Your online/nickname: Archaea

Web page URL: http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~vkc20 (soon to move)

Age: 21

Birthday: 11 December, altogether too close to Christmas

Gender: Female

Location: Cambridge, which beats Spain. I used to be happy about it.

Height/weight: 5'4", more than I'm happy with.

Current haircolour/style: Fading gingerish brown with residual black streaks. Untidy curly mop that got cut into layers by yet another idiotic hairdresser.
 

Natural hair colour: Mid to dark brown.

Eye colour: Dark brown, look black in low light *smug*

Religion: Cynical pagan

Siblings: Spoilt only brat

Children: *gack*

Relationship status: Engaged and panicking

Occupation: Disaffected language student and wannabe geek

Pets: None atm: proxy cat in Spain

Computer you're on: Hex, the PC with a personality all its own

Favorites

Books: Sandman... Pratchett... erm... William Gibson of course... Dracula, proper gothic novels, *shit I don't read as much as I used to* Books I hate: Jane Austen *growl*

Movies: Ooo... Labyrinth. Ridiculous adventure films. The Pillow Book. Drop Dead Fred. Legend (if only it didn't have whatsisface in it...) Similarly eclectic stuff.

Poems: Not since I was 15.

Television shows: Oggy and the Cockroaches, Simpsons, Babylon 5, crap parapsychology series to laugh at

Songs: Delerium- Resurrection, DCD: The Carnival Is Over, Killing Joke- Love like Blood, NMA- Vagabonds (and others), Die Verbannten Kinder Evas- Misery, Bauhaus- King Volcano (?), Killing Miranda- Touched By Jesus, Bangles- Walk Like An Egyptian, Fleetwood Mac- Tell Me Lies, Enya- Orinoco Flow, lots of other cheesy 80s pop, all those songs I know but can't name.

Bands/musicians: Killing Miranda, Depeche Mode, Delerium, Project Pitchfork, (probably a bad sample, my memory's appalling)

Board games: Elixir. No, you won't have heard of it.

Computer games: Things like Myst

Other games: Hide the sausage?

Magazines: Most goth zines when i can lay my hands on them, Cosmopolitan when I'm feeling mindless *blush*

Places to visit: Somerset, quiet bits of England with lots of trees and water, Slimelight, Camden

Food: Chicken, roast dinners, vegetarian, Thai, Chinese, *not* offal, seafood, fish or anything containing raw eggs.

Colours: Black, deep red, forest green, midnight blue. Purple when my hair's black.

Drinks: Long Island iced tea, alcoholic coocnut milkshake, Belgian lager, real tea, real coffee.

Miscellaneous questions

What other newsgroups do you read: Have poked my nose into many from alt.postmodern toalt. cyberpunk to talk.bizarre to ucam.societies.rocksoc, don't really read many others regularly due to not having had a proper newsfeed recently.

To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: Camgoth, Cambridge uni rocksoc

How long have you been reading UPG: A year or three now

What has been your favorite thread on UPG: Long, indecisive ones about the nature of goth :)

What are some of your hobbies: Sleep, collecting loud stripy socks and makeup, sarcasm, introspection, writing, tweaking my webpage, meeting people, throwing myself at blokes who don't want to know

What's the motto you adhere to: Never assume that because someone is in authority they know what they're doing. Also, Anything is possible in the dark.

What's is your personal stupid human trick: Er... Being able to tell what kind of underpants a bloke is wearing just by looking at him. It's a lot more difficult with goths.

What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Earning enough money to afford lots of cool stuff, enjoying a long and happy relationship with Mr Perfect *hah*

What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: People sense.

What do you think is your best asset: Brains? Cuteness? Optimism? Unflappability? I'm not very good at this.

What do you think is the worst thing about you: Where do I start? Probably, intolerance for morons and a certain self-centredness.

What do you value most in a friend: Being able to talk to them about anything; being able to cope with me when I'm pissed.

How do you picture UPG: Lots of goths sprawling about in some large warehouse-esque building, swigging from suspicious soft-drinks bottles and cackling

Do you have another question: Nope.