Your name: in real life? Chris
Your nickname/online name: Gwenhwyfaer de Tierveil
Age: 29
Birthday: 6 July
Gender: Already with the hard questions? Psychologically female usually, physically male
Location: West Yorkshire
Height/weight: 6' / 14st-ish and dropping
Current hair colour/style: Schwarzkopf R49 / needs a trim
Natural hair colour: Dark brown
Eye colour: Varies between grey, green, blue
Body mods: None yet (see gender...)
Religion: Vaguely pagan, although I've just started attending Quaker meetings
Siblings: 1
Children: 0 (unless you count cats)
Relationship status: Single for the foreseeable
Occupation: Between jobs - was a coder
Pets: 3 cats, adored; Firstborn, Blackie, Calliope
Books: Authors: Phil Dick, Chris Brookmyre, Terry Pratchett, Carl Hiaasen Books: Mists of Avalon, When Rabbit Howls, others I forget! Consume pulp fiction voraciously; can read 3 novels a day when up to speed
Movies: Directors: David Lynch, Kevin Smith, Coen Bros, Baz Luhrmann, Jane Campion Actors: Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock (yeah, I know, but I like her!), Christina Ricci, John Cusack, Reese Witherspoon, Uma Thurman Films: Pushing Tin, Fallen, Mansfield Park, The Others, American Beauty, and some others
Poems: Not really into poetry, but Sylvia Plath (risking being stereotypical)
Television shows: Buffy, Angel, The X-Files, Dead Like Me, CSI (all variants), Dr Who, Charmed
Songs: Too many to list individually...
Bands/musicians: Skinny Puppy, FLA, Fields of the Nephilim, New Order / Joy Division, Human League, Orbital, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, A Perfect Circle, LFO (the Warp artists, not the stupid-arsed Yank boy band), Download, Cevin Key (notice a theme...?), Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys
Club: Was Rios in Bradford; now on the lookout for others. Went to Wendy House in Leeds on 20th and was amazed! Will be back there!
Dj (n.b. you can't name yourself): Whoever was doing the Mutate room at WH (don't pay much attention)
Board games: Erm... chess, Scrabble, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit (remember that?)
Computer games: Not really, but quite like driving games at times
Other games: Well now ;-)
Magazines: Fortean Times
Places to visit: Haworth, Whitby, York, Oxford, Cambridge, New York, Stockholm
Food: PIZZA!!! But anything takeaway really
Colours: Deep red that's almost black but not quite
Drinks: Reef, Kronenbourg, Black Tower, Lapsang Souchong (sp?), blackcurrant squash
Computer you're on now: P166 running Linux / Sylpheed / Ion WM
Web page url: not yet, but will be http://www.isle-of-avalon.co.uk when I find I have something to say
Reading upg since: Sunday 
Favourite thread on upg: give me a chance!
How you picture upg: a busy coffee shop that I just walked into
Other newsgroups read: soc.support.transgendered, alt.gothic, comp.lang.forth
Electronic mailing lists: mainly techie stuff
Irc channels: My name is Gwenhwyfaer & I'm an IRCoholic. I've been sober for 5 years.
What are some of your hobbies: Playing with computers, relieving stress through vibrating strings
(guitar playing's overstating it!), reading, watching movies, wiggling bits of string in front of felines...
What's the motto you adhere to: Sod this for a game of soldiers
What is your personal stupid human trick:
What do you want to be doing 10 years from now: Living happily, contentedly, on the other side of the Atlantic, with my friends around me and no money worries, thanking Gaia that I never have to go through the menopause
What is the one thing/skill that you do not have now that you wished you possessed: A female body (definitely thing, not skill!)
What do you think is your best asset: Generosity of spirit
What do you think is the worst thing about you: Timidity
What do you value most in a friend: Being able to talk to them about anything at all