My Quick 7 - Seven things you (probably) don’t know about me
- I learned to walk & talk in Silicon Valley
I did a brief stint in Sunnyvale, CA from the age of 6 months to 2 years while my dad & mom had a little adventure moving out from Austin, TX where I was born. They got a raise coming out here, but when they factored in the cost of living it turned out to be a demotion. 18 months was all they could handle and they moved to suburbs of Houston…
- I grew up in Houston & Sugarland Texas
I barely have an accent though it’s known to come out in fits of passion or inebriation. I whiled my time away there until I was 22 and moved off to Boulder, CO to go school…
- I have a B.A. in Literature at Naropa University
Though, I mostly studied poetics… and then mostly 20th century poets. I have a minor in Theatre. And, it was really called The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. We had some interaction with the Buddhist studies department, but it was a crazy place all in all. It belies my math-oriented brain of my childhood…
- I won 2nd place in a number sense competition in 4th grade
For the city of Houston that is. Though, I have the 3rd place trophy. I was called up mistakenly for that position and they didn’t tell us until weeks later. Oops. We called it Number Sense, but it probably goes by a different name these days. Essentially, it’s a timed competition to answer a bunch of math problems without getting to use scratch paper. My kids are more artistically inclined, though…
- Each of my kids were born in a difference city
Salt Lake City, UT; Boulder, CO; Portland, OR — and we’ve lived in Austin, TX as well as Marin County, CA where we reside now. I like to read odd books at night…
- I’m an armchair linguist focusing on auditory and articulatory phonetics
Sound and how humans make sound is completely and utterly fascinating to me. I have the International Phonetics Alphabet chart up at home. I also am a Edward Tufte devotee.
- I was a vegan for a couple of years
Yep, but I quit because I was becoming really annoying to my friends. Extreme rigor in dietary activity spills over into extreme rigidity in emotional life. Everything in moderation, including moderation. I love bacon & salt chocolate these days…
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