Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG 2001 Edition

The Physical:

Your name: Stella Wisdom

Your online/nickname: Avaritia

Web page url: http://www.madasafish.com/~avaritia

Age: 23

Birthday: 5th September - virgo 0

Gender: female

Location: Loughborough

Height/weight: 5"6, 13 stone worth of fat goth

Current hair colour/style: shoulder length, straight and black, just starting to be re-crimped

Natural hair colour: mouse

Eye colour: greeny grey

Religion: pagan

Siblings: none

Children: looking for someone worthy of fathering them, so probably never

Relationship status: tart with a heart

Occupation: Researcher into library services for visually impaired people

Pets: 250 students (I am a subwarden for my sins)

Computer you're on: packard bell thingeee with speakers that look like ears on the monitor

Favourites:

Books: Pratchett, Terry and Neil Gaiman, "Good Omens" Baird David, "A Thousand Paths to Wisdom" Grunenberg, Christoph, "Gothic"

Movies: The Princess Bride, Braveheart, True Romance, Preaching to the Perverted, He-Man & The Masters of the Universe (Dolph Lundren, swoon, thud)

Poems: Tennyson

Television shows: Jonathon Creek (that hair, that duffle coat), I also like cheesy costume period dramas; the BBC's version of Dicken's "Our Mutual Friend" was rather good.

Songs: The Shroud: Prophesy, Inkubus Sukkubus: Wounded, , Pink: Most Girls, Manuskript: Avaritia ;-)

Bands/musicians: Inkubus Sukkubus, Wolfsheim, Iris, Mesh, All About Eve, Autumn, Roxette, Covenant, Savage Garden, Sunshine Blind, Rosetta Stone, lots more

Club: was Heresy :*( Spellbound, Endorphin, Disassembly, Death Machine, Resurgence, Mercat

Board games: Cluedo

Computer games: I hate computer games, though Deus X looks interesting

Other games: anything involving bunny ears grin

Magazines: Museums Journal, Dazed & Confused, Tate magazine

Places to visit: Tate Britain, Tabasco Jazz, Sainsburys

Food: Lasagne, gnocchi with parmasan, brie, pork and leek sausages with cheesy mash. Actually anything with cheese in, because it is food from the gods.

Colours: gun metal grey, khaki green

Drinks: tea, cinzano bianco, port, beer, pineapple bacardi breezer ( I love the advert with the cat out clubbing)

Miscellaneous Questions:

What other newsgroups do you read: agf occasionally

To which mailing lists are you subscribed: Tainted, Heretics, Lexgoff, Nottgoth, SoGoth, BrumGoth

How long have you been reading upg: since my second year of uni

What has been your favourite thread on upg: nothing has been that memorable to be honest

What are some of your hobbies: reading about herbs, spodding, going to concerts, going to museums, shopping, chasing after men that aren't interested in me.

What's the motto you adhere to: Mistakes are the portals of discovery, James Joyce

What is your personal stupid human trick: eating too much and never realising I should stop at some point

What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: earning lots of money, or if that isn't possible then I'd like to be travelling the world in a VW camper wagon with a pretty hippy bloke

What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: I wish I had more organisational & time management skills, I also wish I was more knowledgeable and well read

What do you think is your best asset: my eyes

What do you think is the worst thing about you: I am lazy and greedy, not a good combination

What do you value most in a friend: loyalty, honesty, open mindedness

How do you picture upg: as another distraction from doing anything with a purpose