All About Me

              First off, my name ain't Pastel, it's Alisa and I live in the South of England with my family, Mother, Father, Big Bro and a multitude of rabbits, rats and three Mischievious cats called Jessie, Ted and Tom.

              I'm 18 years old and I go to The Arnewood 6th Form about 2miles from where I live. There I take Textiles, Creative Textiles, Fine Art and Math. Although I have chosen such fanciful topics the sciences fascinate me and one of my favourite sites on the net is the one at NASA, where they tell you the recent news about whats going on with the space station Mir and the space probe that landed on Mars. Displayed are loads of weird and wondeful pictures of the planets, stars, nebulae.

              This picture on the left (which came from NSSDC) looks like a giant eye ball, not a planetary nebula which it actually is. And the picture on the right is of The Red Spot on Jupiter, looks a bit like something Whatshisname, what painted The Scream, German Bloke, oh You know! Munch

        I love to read, my whole bedroom is like a minature library, full of Science Fiction, mostly Star Trek, Fantasy, a few Asimovs, Virginia Andrews, Christopher Pike and various others. I'm just getting back into Terry Prattchet novels, I tried reading Wyrd Sisters when I was 11 and I totally didn't get it, so a few months ago I dug it out of the heep under my bed and reread it and now I'm hooked on the DyscWorlde.

          I've got a bit of a thing for Dragons, I have artwork and posters of these mythical beasts dotted over the place and I've read all of Anne McCaffrey's Pern series. I don't know what it is about them, I guess it could be that there are so many wonderful artists and authors that they pique my interest.

      You know what gets me annoyed? Well I'm gonna tell you whether you want to know or not. It's malicious hackers, not the regular hacker person, most that I know are really rather sweet once you get to know them, it's the hackers that bomb, nuke, spam, and ping your computer just because you may have said something offensive or, they are out for a laugh. I heard about one time a silly little boy nuked an entire chat room just for the hell of it. Now what is the point in that?? I got so fed up and upset about being nuked that I got myself a program called Plisten, which stops nukers. You can get this program from Microsoft, I don't know if they still have it there anymore. If they don't, e-mail me, ( boadicea@hempseed.com ) and I will gladly send it to you, I know how frustrating it can be having your computer buggered up.

      As I have already sort of mentioned I am a fan of Trekkie, my favourite is Deep Space Nine, closely followed by Voyager. I think I like the series' because of my interests in space, NASA and Out There in general.

      The Trek site at Paramount is amazing, even if you're not really that into Trek you should go there, they've done it up all posh and there's even a little screen PADD.

          I love Pre-Raphaelite art, it's the romantic style in which they paint I find so alluring. Out of all of them I think my favourite artist is a toss up between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. My favourite place to be on a Saturday morning (except bed) is at the Southampton Art Gallery where they have Burne-Jones' work of Perseus (you know, the story about the boy getting flying shoes and chopping off Medusa's head) The top left is Rossetti's Proserpine, she's holding that pomegranet because she just took a bite out of it in the Underworld and as legend goes if you taste anything from Hades you are doomed to stay there forever. Below her is Flaming June, I don't know if there is a story to go with this picture but its one of my favourites anyway.