Describe Yourself to the Netscrape
The UPG 2000 Edition

The Physical:

Your name: Noelle

Your online/nickname: noelle, nollichu, nollipop.....etc

Web page url: www.fetishsteel.demon.co.uk/noelle

Age: 20

Birthday/birthplace: 23/05/79 Todmorden

Gender: female

Location: Todmorden: Still stuck in the blinkin' place

Height/weight: 5'5" / 7st 8lb

Current haircolour/style: waistlength straight in black/white/purple/lilac streaks, neon purple fringe.

Natural hair colour: ash blonde

Eye colour: odd blue/green/grey kind of shade

Piercings/tattoos: 21 piercings

Religion: Anxiety. It's a way of life.

Siblings: One brother and a sister

Children: !!!!!

Relationship status: Happily matched

Occupation: Undergrad English Student, circuit board design/manufacture

Pets: One randy tomcat called Dante

Computer you are on: Souped-up Celeron 266

Favourites:

Books/authors/type of literature: Sci/Fi general, Pratchett, Romantic (Period, not Mills and Boon!) Victorian, Modernist...And so on...

Magazines: More! Bizarre, Skin Deep, MBR

Movies/directors/actors...: Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Wes Snipes, Johnny Depp

Poems/poets: Coleridge, Wordsworth, e.e.cummings, Eliot

Television shows: Buffy (of course!) PokEmon, Simpsons, Fast Show, Anything with cute animals (Animal Hospital, etc)

Radios/radio shows: Used to be Talk Radio, but Talk Sport is useless before 10pm now, tortured at work by Radio 1, which everybody has on their workbenches

Songs: Faaaar too many to even start

Bands/musicians: As above, but today's were: VNV, ECO, FLA, CJ Bolland, Lucid, Wumpscut

Paintings/artists/work of art...: Pretty ignorant in this department, but Dali is suitably strange

Games: Lemmings Paintball, Dungeon Keeper 2

Places to visit: Plymouth, London, Berlin

Food and drinks: Lots of. Especially chocolate. But Mexican, Chinese, Italian and Microwave are top. And Voddie.

Colours: Purple, silver, white, purple, black, pink and purple.

Miscellaneous Questions:

What other newsgroups do you read: alt.gothic.fashion, rec.music.industrial

To which mailing lists are you susbscribed: Mancgoff (Or at least I was. Help, Alex!!! )

How long have you been reading upg: About 18 months

What has been your favorite thread on upg: Pass

What are some of your hobbies: Kickboxing, Thai boxing, veggie cooking, hair fiddling, Mountain- biking, writing.

What's the motto you adhere to: "Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, don't matter a bit. I have had plenty of each and they have only encouraged me." Jeanette Winterson.

What's is your personal stupid human trick: Bending my thumb backwards until it touches my wrist.

What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Writing professionally, lecturing?

What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: More confidence in public speaking

What do you think is your best asset: Open-mindedness

What do you think is the worst thing about you: Shyness and quietness, not staying in contact with people enough.

What do you value most in a friend: Patience, understanding (for when I forget to call them!) intelligence

What do you hate most in others: People who engage their mouth before their brain has even had a chance to warm up.

How do you picture upg: 

A large boxing-ring with several 'mums' and 'girlfriends' on the sidelines with fire extinguishers for the flames, and/or brick-laden handbags to join in.

Any question you would like added: