Your name: Hester Duffy
Your online/nickname: H Duffy
Age: 27
Birthday: 30th December
Gender: Female
Location: Leicester
Height/weight: 5'3", Don't know (or want to know) what I weigh.
Current hair colour/style: Purple a-symmetric bob-ish thing
Natural hair colour: Um. Last time I checked, it was mousey, but that was a long time ago.
Eye colour: grey-blue.
Religion: High priestess and earthly mouthpiece of the great leader and prophet, Sushidog
Siblings: One of each.
Children: Couldn't eat a whole one...
Relationship status: Good question. Pass.
Occupation: Researcher in VR and spatial awareness.
Pets: None of my own, I borrow other people's.
Computer you're on: A jumped-up P3 at work.
Books: G K Chesterton, early 20th century detective and ghost fiction, Neil Gaiman, Sci-fi, Victorian porn, cereal packets...
Movies: 80's teen flicks, bad sci-fi, pretty much anything that isn't actively unpleasant.
Poems: Seamus Heaney
Television shows: Buffy, The West Wing, Frazier, archeology stuff
Songs: Depends too much on my mood to make a choice
Bands/musicians: See above, but favourites include Aha, Aerosmith, Depeche Mode, the Cure, Alice in Chains, various 80's cheese, Ed Alleyne Johnson, Delerium, various new wave stuff...
Club: Spellbound, Leicester; Afterlife, York; Dissaessmbly, Coventry
Board games: Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble
Computer games: Settlers II, Freecell.
Other games: Magic TG, Taboo
Places to visit: York, Ireland, Paris
Food: Chocolate, cake, porridge, pasta, rare steak, curry, chinese take away, I'm getting hungry now...
Colours: Purple, green, silver, black, grey...
Drinks: Coffee, port, guinness, tequila, decent red wine
What other newsgroups do you read: alt.gothic. alt.gothic.fashion, alt.folklore.urban. alt.humor.best-of-usenet, a couple of local ones and a couple of work-related one.
To which mailing lists are you subscribed: None; My inbox is slightly larger than the average piece of chewing gum.
How long have you been reading upg: On and off, since'95.
What has been your favourite thread on upg: One of the fluff ones, probably.
What are some of your hobbies: Making cakes, cooking generally, crocheting, arguing with Whisky Dave
What's the motto you adhere to: "The dog wants the sushi, but the dog can't have the sushi"
What is your personal stupid human trick: I can lick the end of my nose, and I know a lot of really bad jokes.
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Getting rich off the profits of my own private porn empire
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: Only one? There are too many to list.
What do you think is your best asset: I have great cleavage
What do you think is the worst thing about you: I hold grudges longer and harder than almost anyone else in the western world.
What do you value most in a friend: Honesty, humour, open-mindedness
How do you picture upg: Like a loud, dark, crowded bar.