Name: Selena Elizabeth Ulrich.
Nicknames: Sel, Kitsune, Jane, Greebly (last two are just what I'm in some people's address books as)
Age: See Date of Birth
Date of Birth: 17/06/76 (now you can work out my age from that)
Time of Birth: Dunno but I was turning blue and not breathing at the time
Gender: Female
Race: No ta, I prefere to sit on the sidelines and watch. Oh, alright. Caucasian. Half German, half English.
Height: 5ft8
Weight: 9st 7. Um, that's...about 119 pounds I *think*
Measurements: I'm not even going to honour that with a reply.
Eyes: Two, both grey.
Hair: Copper (not auburn or chestnut or any other variation) and long. Shoulder-length I reckon.
Distinguishing features: Moderately disabled. Left leg shorter than right, left hand doesn't work, lower energy than most. I don't use a wheelchair but after about a mile I tend to collapse. For the rest of the day. And am incapable of moving much after that. No, really.
Spouse: None and it looks like staying that way for the foreseeable future (sigh). But I won't bore you with my whining about that - last person I did that to was my friend Rob and he can tell you how annoying I was when I did that.
Siblings: One half-brother, recently married, one half-sister and three step-sisters.
Personal Background: Nothing special. Birth, school, university, real world. Highlights so far have included going to emotional Hell and back via a modem and discovering I'm a dyke. Actually it wasn't so hard to discover since I've known all my life and am quite happy about it. Now all I have to do is complete that Great Quest for Identity that all humans go through and I'm laughing. OK...chuckling unpleasantly.
Job: Unpublished writer
Future School/uni: Applied to do an MSc in Information Sciences at Brighton University in 1999
Personality Profile: Hmm...Reasonably happy, quite well balanced emotionally. Prone to panic and irrational fears. Can be bolshie if defending my territory, often unneccessarily. Bored if there's nothing going on to stimulate me (wahay!) and when I get bored I get miserable. And I can get scared easily in some things and over-compensate by going at some things hell for leather. But the bitchiness is something I like about me. Basically I'm a contradictory and over-analytical wench with a bitchy streak a mile wide and a heart of gold (or so I've been told). That enough for you? (Yes - please shut up now!)
Dislikes: Homophobia, sexism, racism, men with a mental age of 12, men who believe that all lesbians need is the right man to 'convert' them, mysogyny, people who try to force their religion and beliefdown your throats...I think that'll do for starters.
Interests: Occultism, magic, writing, playing the trumpet, computer games, a little cooking, a lot of talking, and finding the woman of my dreams. I'm also one of the 6ft6 Amazon Goddesses, and if you want to know what the hell I mean by that, go check out our website, or find out how it all started with the story of The Amazon Goddess, on Lorna's website.
Things I Collect: All kinds of odd junk. The odd serious comic book. Books. Memories.
Best Advice Ever Given: If you don't pick it, it'll heal.
A Non-Sport Game At Which I Excel: Arcade games like: cute platformers, some beat-em ups, the occasional racing game.
Dream Car: If I'm feeling virtuous I advocate a reduction in cars on the road and a 1000% improvement in public transport (since I'm disabled and prolly can't drive). In my secret moments, a Courcheval Manta painted orange with a Kitsune logo and two 7.62 miniguns strapped to the sides. (memo to self - GET A LIFE!)
Coolest Experience In Life: Let's just say it involved another person, 3am and 80s romantic music on the radio.
Stupidest Thing I've Ever Done: No comment.
Character Traits You Look For Most In A Girl/Guy: Dark sense of humour, open-mindedness, patience, supportiveness, independence, sexual openess.
What I Want To be: Rich enough not to worry about working on anything I don't want to do.
Future Goals: Get published, become a world-recognised name (in a good way!)
Fave Color(s): Yellow, red, blood red, black
Fave Food: Chinese, Italian
Least Fave Food: Not come across anything yet.
Fave Vacationing Spot: Wherever I am when I'm happy & not having to work
Fave Subject English
Fave Sport: American football when it's good.
Other Sport Games You Enjoy: Dreaming of a world without a major foootball tournament every two years.
Like to Read: Sci-fi, fantasy, horror (but nothing too trashy please!)
Fave Actor/Actress: Sigourney Weaver, Drew Barrymore, Richard E Grant, Malcom McDowell.
Fave Movie Clerks
Fave Music Video Oh pur-lease!
Fave Animal: Cat, fox
Fave TV Show: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Simpsons, Ultraviolet, Blackadder (except the first series), Dr Who
Fave Day: Friday.
Fave Month/Season: Autumn
Fave Holiday: The weekend
And now, for those of you who aren't sick of this already, here are twenty facts about Selena that you never knew (or are mentioned anywhere else).
She stole this list idea from her friend Kate Bolin.
She wears a leather thong round her neck that has on it two small keys, a ring with a picture of a skull on it, an ankh, and an Egyptian pendant with her name spelt out in hieroglyphics on it.
She wears a claddagh ring on the third finger of her right hand
She's actually quite shy, in a babbling, talkative sort of way.
She has a little scar in the middle of her forehead from where a cousin accidentally pushed her into a protruding screw-head when she was 7.
She doesn't like revealing where she lives in a public forum.
She heals slowly, in every sense of the word.
She refers to herself far too much in the third person.
She has two alter-egos, both of whom scare her somewhat.
She considers herself a carnivour, although she's currently living off mostly pasta (garnished with salami).
She loves Pesto so much she could eat it on its own.
She isn't related either to the actor Skeet Ulrich or the drummer from Metallica, Lars Ulrich.
Her surname means 'wolf' in German.
She has a cute fish clock and a cuddly wolf-pup that she named Smilla after Peter Høeg's "Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow."
She managed to finish her undergraduate degree in credit.
She has a nostalgia for ZX Spectrum computer games, 1930s film noir ambience, and music from the 60s.
She doesn't get enough sleep.
She once created 'The Loyal Order of Hedonists' rather than sit down and read one of the works of Karl Marx.
She's 20ft tall and breathes blue fire!
She's amazed that she thought of 20 points.