Cath2
This month we are interviewing Cath2. We find out how life really is with Kev and how chips will always be eaten by daddy.
Real name:
Catherine Louise Morgan-James
Date of Birth:
12/01/81
Sex:
Female
Approximate location:
Exwick (Exeter for those not familiar with the other side of the river!)
How did you discover #exeter?
Kev came into my room at uni one day and signed me up - so not so much discovered as introduced
How long have you been chatting in #exeter?
Since the third year I think, coz that’s when I got an internet connection for the first time, so about 2 and a half years. To be completely honest tho, about a year and a half of that has been spent randomly spectating and occasionally going lol/heh according to my mood - that’s what having to pay electricity bills and go to work do for you! Well, me anyway. My crap (but soon to be replaced!) pc may also be a factor there
What do you do all day?
I spend my days withering^h^h^hworking at Friends Provident administering pension schemes. The endless fun to be had there is, well, overwhelming. Honestly, I feel as lucky as an extremely lucky person who’s just found something to feel very very lucky about. Whoop. (apologies to those of you who can actually quote Blackadder if I got that wrong but getting the DVD out was just too much effort!)
What things frustrate you the most? How do you usually cope with them?
How long have I got? Several people/policies at work frustrate me intensely, such as having all the useful options in Windows applications blacked out so you can’t use them. I usually cope by shamelessly abusing resources (photocopying application forms, using envelopes etc), staring vaguely out the window and concentrating on lunch/home time as appropriate!
Other things that frustrate me include my family (anyone who knows any of them will understand why!), having no money, being thus far completely useless at getting a new job, and as of last night’s I’m A Celebrity, Peter Andre!
What is it really like living with Kev? Does he make you do all the washing up?
Living with Kev is pretty darn cool actually - let’s face it, I’d be a bit of an idiot to still be doing so after 5 years if it wasn’t! And no, he doesn’t make me do all the washing up - he’s wuvvewy 
*And* he gets me 25% discount on council tax and you can’t say that about everyone!
How long have you been online and how long have you been on IRC?
About the same time as I’ve been chatting in #exeter I think
What do you consider to be your greatest achievements to date? Why?
Erm…..*thinks*……getting good gcses/a-levels/degree would probably count…..moving out of parental home also pretty darn good…managing to cook anything without setting the fire alarm off…..yeah, bout it really.I mean, gimme a chance like, I’m only 23!
Daddy or chips?
Chips not an option as daddy would eat them but it would be daddy anyway as he’s lovely and , surprisingly after living with my mum/brother, relatively sane Besides, I’m on a diet
Do you have any interests in real life? If so what are they and how involved are you with them? Do you find your online life hinders or compliments them?
Singing/music is a biggie for me, as are reading, socialising with friends, watching my fave progs on telly, and as of recently, pilates/yoga and martial arts based or dance based aerobics. I find the aerobics based versions to be lot less painful than the undiluted versions 
Oh, and I also quite like computer RPGs as of even more recently
I don’t really find that my online life is much of an issue either way, largely coz I don’t think of it as being much more than another interest in my real life that I engage in from time to time Not that everyone in #exeter isn’t lovely of course :p
How do you think other people perceive you in the channel? Do you think your online persona mirrors your real life persona?
I would hope that I’m as friendly and the normal me online as I usually am - I don’t see the point in trying to be someone else just cos you can’t see the people you’re talking to, or else phone calls would require a lot more effort and imagination than I currently put into them I’d like to think peeps like me and find me a nice person but a little daft sometimes as most people I know do
Do you find Wales to be underrepresented in #exeter?
Quality, not quantity boyo! Tidy
Can you draw a picture of a snail? Please attach evidence in the form of an image file.
Erm, no - I don’t know how to do drawing that doesn’t involve those thin paper sheety things!
If you could go on holiday anywhere and any when where would you go and who would you take with you?
Well, if I could go anywhere I might as well hang it all dammit and go and bloody well see everywhere while I had the chance I’d go asap (but not before my new pc arrives coz that’d be just silly), and I’d take a small group of people I got on with well enough to have a wikkid time with for that long a holiday…Kev, Shintor and a few others who don’t frequent #exeter and shall therefore remain nameless
Where would you like to see yourself in five years time? Do you think you will be able to achieve it?
I never know what to say to this in job interviews and I don’t have much more clue now either! I guess if I could reach the grand old age of 28 and still have my friends around me, be happy, healthy, living somewhere cool and having a job I liked then that’d do me Oh, and more money. I’d like more money by then too.
If you could buy anything what would it be?
Everything I ever wanted of course! This would include a new wardrobe, TFT panel, and driving lessons/car too coz I’m sick of using the bus
What was the least complimentary thing a teacher wrote about you in a school report?
Too quiet in class. Seriouly, that was the worst any of them said, and they all said it!
If you could sum up your experience of #exeter in one word, what would that word be?
A summary :p
And finally, who from the channel do you think I should interview next?
Bagpuss - bring on the pink and white stripiness
Thank you Cath2 for offering your often enlightening answers to my questions. Next month I will look forward to interviewing Bagpuss. If you have any questions for my next victim please send them to me