Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG Edition

The physical

Your name: Paula

Your online/nickname: Lily

Web page URL: www.mockingbird.clara.net

Age: 27

Birthday: 28/10

Gender: female

Location: Liverpool

Height/weight: about 5'11/no idea

Current haircolour/style: blonde/usually crimped
 

Natural hair colour: Blonde

Religion: The gospel according to Lily

Siblings: none

Children: No thanks, I've already eaten

Relationship status: attached - still working out to *what* though....

Occupation: social worker (I must have done something terrible in a previous life)

Pets: Two black cats, Mina and Meg

Computer you're on: I haven't a clue what the spec is - but it works!

Favorites

Books: Freda Warrington - Dark Cathedral, Pagan Moon, the Vampire series, Ann Rice - The Witches series, Dracula - Bram Stoker, Poppy Z Brite - Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory, Nickie Roberts - Whores in History

Films: Withnail and I, Interview with the Vampire, Kes, Ed Wood, The Wicker Man, Life of Brian - too many to list

Poems: not a poetry person

Television shows: Changing Rooms, Psychos, Battersea Dogs Home, The Bill, Brookside, Bagpuss, The Munsters, The Addams Family - I watch far too much television

Songs: Sex Dwarf - Soft Cell, Megalomaniac - KMFDM, The Witch - Rosetta Stone, Narcissist - The Narcissus Pool, again - too many to list

Bands/musicians: Rosetta Stone, Narcissus Pool, SBM, Nekromantik, Horatii, Faithful Dawn, KMFDM, Apoptygma Berzerk, Switchblade Symphony, Siouxsie, Suspiria, Midnight Configuration, plus lots of eighties Soft Cell, Human League, Duran Duran, Adam and the Ants, 60's - Doors, Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, 70's - Led Zep, T-Rex, Deep Purple I like all sorts me.

Board games: Humbug, Balderdash

Computer games: don't like them and anyway I haven't time

Other games:

Magazines: Community Care - very boring

Places to visit: Prague, Brasov - Transylvania, Eastern Europe generally. Hoping to go to New Orleans in the near future

Food: Indian, Mexican

Colours: Black, Purple, Silver

Drinks: Anything <hic>

Miscellaneous questions

What other newsgroups do you read: none - I have enough trouble keeping up with this one

To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: Scousegoff

How long have you been reading UPG: Since January '98

What has been your favorite thread on UPG: The one about kids TV programs

What are some of your hobbies: drinking, being on this thing, spending money I haven't got

What's the motto you adhere to: do unto others as you would have done to yourself - or however it goes

What's is your personal stupid human trick: Getting outrageously drunk and making an arsehole of myself

What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: still plugging my crimpers in and having a good time

What is the one thing that you do not have now that you wished you Possessed: Laurence-Llewyln Bowen or Alan Davies, I'm not fussy

What do you think is your best asset: My make-up bag!

What do you think is the worst thing about you: Indecision and the ability to spend money as if it is going out of fashion

What do you value most in a friend: accepting you for what you are

How do you picture UPG: passing the time until the next Whitby comes along

Do you have another question: Does my bum look big in this?