Your name: Miriam McDonald
Your online/nickname: Miriam, Mim, Mimsy
Web page URL: none
Age: 25
Birthday: 26/02
Gender: female
Location: Bath. The place, not the household fitting.
Height/weight: 5'5", about eight and a half stone
Current haircolour/style: Black/ shoulder length
Natural hair colour: paper bag brown.
Eye colour: blue
Religion: none (raised Anglican)
Siblings: 1 brother
Children: none
Relationship status: engaged
Occupation: production assistant at Future Publishing
Pets: Heidegger the Royal Python.
Computer you're on: Beige PowerMac G3
Books: Anything by James Ellroy, "Rebecca" (du Maurier), "Anno Dracula" (Newman), most murder-mysteries, film history books, "Psychoville" (Fowler)
Movies: The Addams Family/ Addams Family Values, "Some Like It Hot", "The 7-Year Itch", "The Bad and the Beautiful", "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?"
Poems: anything by Milton, "Crow Tries The Media (Hughes), "The Wasteland", most Robert Browning
Television shows: Lexx
Songs: "Love Me Or Leave Me" (Nina Simone), "She's in Parties" (Bauhaus) "Celluloid Heroes" (The Kinks)
Bands/musicians: The Kinks, early Rolling Stones, Nephilim, Sisters, Ella Fitzgerald, Nick Cave, Tom Lehrer
Board games: Pass The Pigs
Computer games: Civ 2 Gold, Yoshi's Story, Mario Kart, Diddy Kong Racing
Magazines: MacFormat, N64, Bizarre, SFX
Places to visit: dunno
Food: Cheese, Haribo Goldbears
Colours: black, all shades of red/burgundy/scarlet (not pink, though)
Drinks: tea
What other newsgroups do you read: none
To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: SWG
How long have you been reading UPG: about a year (lurked 6 months)
What has been your favorite thread on UPG: any not involving "They killed 25 students..." or religion.
What are some of your hobbies: sewing, cooking, reading, watching old films
What's the motto you adhere to: Try not to make someone else's life miserable.
What's is your personal stupid human trick: Playing Civ 2 until my RSI flares up.
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Retired to an Addams-Family-style house, complete with gorgeous dingy garden, ballroom and train set. I already have the train set.
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: That house.
What do you think is your best asset: sympathetic
What do you think is the worst thing about you: paranoia
What do you value most in a friend: loyalty
How do you picture UPG: lots of people sitting at computers.
Do you have another question: no