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Computer scientist by day, researcher by night, I am working part time while studying personalized search and information retrieval in graduate school. I've been on the net tinkering with JavaScript and HTML since early '96, but didn't really get into computing until a few years later, just in time for college. I prefer theory to systems, and like to write code that writes code. I'm an applications kind of gal, with a mathematical and statistics background who codes on the weekends for fun. In my free time I dabble in writing (mostly fiction) and have been known to sketch a bit. I also do some volunteer work with women in the sciences programs.
I live with Lily, a brown torby (Tortoiseshell with tabby patterns, also sometimes referred to as a patched tabby) in our third floor apartment. She was adopted from a no-kill cat rescue group (TVAR) in August 2005 at the age of two and a half months. Some day I hope to have a house, if for no other reason then to accommodate all the cat toys.
I tend to think I'm fairly easy going, and friendly. Sometimes I'm a bit silly, and absent minded despite my best efforts. I've been known to lose my glasses on my forehead, and my keys in my hand. I like to think of my self as the eccentric scientist in training. Wasn? Albert Einstein forgetful too? My ultimate ?londe moment, though, was locking myself out on the patio of my third floor apartment in my pjs with the shower running. Fortunately, being an engineer, I popped the screen and solved that problem.
If you want to know more, feel free to browse my Journal.