Your name: Jodi
Your online/nickname: Jodi (it's ridiculous enough anyway)
Web page url: I'll do one this year, honest.
Age: 32
Birthday: 14th august
Gender: Female
Location: Bristol
Height/weight: 5'5", just over 9 stone
Current hair colour/style: Blue-black bob
Natural hair colour: has not been inflicted on the world since 1986
Eye colour: Blue/grey
Religion: Militant agnostic with secular humanist leanings
Siblings: Brother in Canada who is actually a bigger screw-up than me
Children: Not now, not ever. Am looking into having this surgically ensured.
Relationship status: Living together
Occupation: PA - I get paid very little to tell people who make vast sums of money what to do
Pets: Snuffles the evil bunny; Gordon and Sneezey the guinea pigs; Buffy, Willow and Spike the rats (Buffy has several large tumours and is not long for this world); and Ibjilah the gerbil (I never saw the appeal of gerbils till I was guilt-tripped into having one; but she's become the household favourite)
Computer you're on: Er - a computer...
Books: I read lots. History, anthropology, "proper" literature. Iain Banks, "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt, Ian Rankin; "Cryptonomicon", Tim Powers "The Anubis Gates", A.S. Byatt "Possession" that's just from the last year or so, can't get a fix on anything further back than that.
Movies: Wings of Desire, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, How to Steal a Million, My Favourite Year. On the whole there are very few films I can watch more than once, no matter how much I enjoyed them the first time round.
Poems: Blake, Byron, Baudelaire, John Donne
Television shows: Currently Buffy, Angel and Stargate. Long term, MASH was a big influence.
Songs: "Wild is the Wind" and "As the World falls Down", David Bowie; "Perfect Day", Lou Reed; "Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight", REM; "Pink Glove", Pulp. among hundreds of others
Bands/musicians: David Bowie, Nick Cave, REM, Pulp, Suede, Puressence, Joy Division, Chameleons, Strangelove, Dead can Dance, Bauhaus, Auteurs, Neubauten, Tindersticks, Cranes. Amongst others
Club: Exile
Board games: Don't do those
Computer games: Or those
Other games: Or those
Magazines: Private Eye, History Today, occasionally New Scientist
Places to visit: Anywhere but here. In the UK, Haworth and surrounding area, Cornwall. Toronto. Still saving up for trip to South America
Food: Mexican. Indian. Cheesecake.
Colours: Black with the odd appearance of purple, royal blue or dark red/burgundy. Shiny silver things.
Drinks: Coffee. It's my only remaining vice 
What other newsgroups do you read: alt.gothic.pretentions, a.g.fashion; alt.southampton.goth.commandoes
To which mailing lists are you subscribed: None
How long have you been reading upg: Not quite since the beginning.
What has been your favourite thread on upg: None as such
What are some of your hobbies: Reading. Needlework when I'm not too arthritic, jigsaw puzzles when I am. Going for long walks in pretty parts of the countryside on those rare occasions I can walk for more than 10 min. without falling over.
What's the motto you adhere to: If it can go wrong, it will. And usually to me. (I know this is what Pete said. But it's totally my take on the world).
What is your personal stupid human trick: Moving to an area that's even less cosmopolitan than the last place. That took some doing.
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Be a working-from-home web designer/technical writer/goth online retailer and using the profits to subsidise an animal shelter.
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: Some confidence would be good.
What do you think is your best asset: I'm flexible and adaptable to my surroundings and circumstances.
What do you think is the worst thing about you: I've been using the same "funny for 5 minutes" sig file for the last year.
What do you value most in a friend: Tolerance of my disability and all the patheticness that entails.
How do you picture upg: Home away from home.
Do you have another question: What time is lunch around here?