Your name: Victoria
Your online/nickname: Vice or Victoria
Web page URL: will get round to it soon
Age: 23
Birthday: last of the first
Gender: female
Location: Sunny Warwick
Height/weight: 5'5" ~9st
Current haircolour/style: Mouse, straight, below my bottom
Natural hair colour: Mouse
Eye colour: Blue/green/grey depending on my mood
Religion: CofE
Siblings: 1 brother
Children: not a hope
Relationship status: too hooked to touch but not hooked enough to look
Occupation: PhD Research Student (Bioinformatics + X-ray crystallography)
Pets: 2 cats (Brutus and Brimstone)
Computer you're on: DEC XP1000 unix
Books: Robert Heilein, Pratchett, Robert Rankin, Laurel K. Hamilton the odd classic novel, Oscar Wilde, Pooh Bear (my favourite bed time story along with the Hitch-hikers guide) .....
Movies: Delicatessen,Lost Boys, City of the Lost Children, Seventh Seal, Romeo+Juliette, Bad Taste, all James Bond's, The Decameron, Flash Gordon, the Goonies .....
Poems: The War Poets, Catallus, several by the famous poet Anon. and many others
Television shows: Jerry Springer for a laugh, Monty Python, Black Adder, Red Dwarf,The Bill
Songs: Somebody - DepecheMode, Ex-lover - S.O.D, PMT - Covenant
Bands/musicians: Depeche Mode, Covenant, Front 242, FLA, NIN, Lou Reed,Bowie, Beetles, Bauhouse, S.O.D. Mission, Ministry, Adam Ant, Rage Against the Machine, Velvet Underground,Danielle Dax, Thrill Kill Cult, Cramps,Jesus and Mary Chain,The Cure,to name but a few as well as tonnes of Classical most of which is Mozart
Board games: Scrabble, Hedgehogs Revenge.
Computer games: Civ 2, Heroes of Might and Magic, Age of Empires, Labyrinth, Nethack
Other games: strip poker, cheat
Magazines: NewScientist, Nature.
Places to visit: Egypt, Greece.
Food: Everything including lobster and chocolate (not together though)
Colours: Green,black, blue,
Drinks: tea, wine, more wine , general alcohol (though I do draw the line at meths.
What other newsgroups do you read: bionet.genome.arabidopsis, bionet.jobs.offered, bionet.xtallography.
To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: contaminatii
How long have you been reading UPG: ~9 months
What has been your favorite thread on UPG: a fair few
What are some of your hobbies: music(listening and playing) Karate, rifle shooting, reading, gardening
What's the motto you adhere to: Do unto others as you would have done unto you.
What's is your personal stupid human trick: getting up in the morning
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: I would like to have achieved my career goal and be blissfully happy totally hitched to my current partner
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: I wish for nothing, my partner has done a fantstic job
What do you think is your best asset: perseverence
What do you think is the worst thing about you: tend to be happy with what I have, nowt I can do about it anyway
What do you value most in a friend: being a friend
How do you picture UPG: Spikey..Black..Hardedged..
Do you have another question: Why can I not just have an easy life?