Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG Edition

The Physical:

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.

Favourites:

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

Miscellaneous Questions:

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.