Tracy "Velvet" Dempsey

I'll let Velvet speak for herself :

"Went to Queen's after Loreto and did a degree in Industrial Management. (Figured that since it was an engineering course, there'd be 20 men and hopefully just the 1 woman, but ended up in a class of 2 blokes and 7 birds. Oops.) Went about the whole university experience in quite a leisurely fashion, and left 4 years later to work for a Belfast IT firm with a U.S. parent company.

The Belfast IT firm is Northbrook of course where Char, Star, Pengu, Buddah and myself are now working. But of course now that we're in a professional working environent I no longer get any embarassing photos of Velvet........ honest. ;)

Hobbies

"...are for people who actually enjoy their job, and don't come home to the bosom of a sofa that understands when no-one else will.   Why would you leave it?"

Likes

• Music: Currently listening to Jesus & Mary Chain best of, and Echo & the Bunnymen's Ocean Rain. For getting pished with weemin in the house, Wham! and Bananarama... Otherwise Spacehog, The Smiths, Mazzy Star, Pixies, Jeff Buckley. For going out, most disco/funk/soul (BT1 new favourite spot, despite the unisex toilets - LIFT THE SEATS, BOYS!).

• Food: Still spuds and pasta, but have discovered passion for risotto now too. With chicken/scallops/parmesan/roasted peppers...
• Drink: Baby Guinnesses now banned cos they exacerbate an already-painful hangover. Now rioja/shiraz at home/in a restaurant, or vod & tonic in the bar. But not together - that leads to mess. Believe me.

• TV: Property Ladder, Relocation x 3, Grand Designs.. and I'm still a renter. Malcolm in the Middle, Simpsons. There's Something about Miriam was highly entertaining..

• Films: Shawshank Redemption, Murder in the First, Back to the Future (1-point-21 gigawatts!), Hitchcock, most films I've seen now thanks to film class in Queen's ILL - Le Trou, Oxbow Incident, Rashomon, and others too many to mention.

• Going Out: Don't do it very often any more, due to a) trying to clear ridiculous debt from previous hedonistic ways, and b) going out with a homebody obsessed with movies (and no, not of the mucky variety). When I do, I like BT1 with the girls for a boogie, otherwise a decent pub where you can hear each other chat, e.g. the Errigal. I'm turning into a bit of a sad old git, really..
  
  

Dislikes

What would Velvet do if she won the lottery ?

"The possibilities are ENDLESS. And the bar would be too..."

Choice quotes

"I'm employee 69. You did well out of that." (Not said to me!)

"Can you clone yourself and give me one?"

"Shall I just shove it in ?"

"I wish I was still at Queen's!"  

"Oh god you`ll never guess what I did last night... " (Usually followed by " Piss off! I`d remember if I'd done that.. (?) "