Above all else, know that I never back down from a challenge regardless of how stupid it may be. Case in point - the only reason I signed up for this site is because my friend didn't think I would :/

Okay self-summary time: I am a 21 (almost 22) yr old college student who sometimes works as a barista at a fake starbucks. I love computers partly because they are the only thing in my life that actually has no choice other than to listen to me and mostly because I love breaking things open and figuring stuff out.

On the rare occasions I do have spare time, I play video games with the same dedication some people put towards jobs. I also attempt to write comics but I can't draw for my life. I also try to teach myself basic programming and web design but often that requires more time than I usually have.

I'm currently going to college with a major in computer science and a minor in applied math and statistics. I make coffee and I compare this to an alcoholic working in a liquor store because caffeine is my fuel of choice. Other than that, I guess I'm not doing much with my life :/

I'm pretty decent at the following:
-Making lattes and derivatives of said beverage
-Solving puzzles. This includes everything from Braid to figuring out crossword puzzles.
-Writing. Not necessarily creatively.
-Making people laugh unintentionally.

1. I'm female. You'd notice that about me if you were in a 200 person lecture class with maybe 10 females as well. I'm not bitter - I love my major and I have lots of funny smart friends from comp sci. although sometimes I wonder what normal people do for fun because coordinating timed shutdowns of every computer 30 minutes into our lab class is probably not up there :/

2. I'm the whitest hispanic most people have ever met. To be fair, I'm only half. I'm puerto rican, french, german, and british. I can cook arroz con pollo AND I share a common ancestor with Ann Coulter!

3. I come across as snobbish and incredibly intimidating (this assessment c/o two of my coworkers when they first got hired), but really I'm incredibly shy and not very "gutsy" when it comes to meeting people. This is probably a byproduct of my lack of confidence in my ability to just go with a conversation and not overanalyze everything. Example:
coworker - "Oh man...I wish there was a way for me to figure out how bad my hangover will be the next day based on what I drank the night before"
me - "I had the same thought when I went to vegas, so I created an exponential equation with my principle value of sobriety, how many drinks I'd consumed based on my rate of consumption per hour, and how many hours of sleep I would need to calculate my level of drunk in the morning"

4. I have insanely small hands. There might be infants with larger hands than myself.

Books: Cien anos de soledad is up there as one of my favorite books of all time along with Anna Karenina, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Cry the Beloved Country, and Lolita. For the record, I don't think there is a single writer alive today who understands the dynamic between the sexes better than Hemingway. I love short story writers as well - Flannery O'Connor and John Cheever among my favorites. I think I tend to fall in love with stories that have an air of hopeless romanticisim with a streak of sick perverted intelligent humor. On that note, I love Frank Miller and Sin City. The movie was okay.

Movies: Name any well-known movie and chances are I haven't seen it. Ghostbusters? Nope. The Godfather? Nay. Any James Bond movie? None. My parents weren't big on movies and I just never had the motivation to go out and watch them on my own. I did see Tron about 20 times as a kid, which probably made me fall even more in love with computers :/

Music: I'm pretty open to most kinds of music except anything entirely too angry sounding. I'm anxious enough as is. Growing up my favorite bands were MSI, Zeromancer, Basement Jaxx, Prodigy, The Faint, Placebo, Mount Sims, Ladytron - pretty much eurotrashy and dirty. However, I am a product of the 90s and thus still have a soft spot in my heart for The Cardigans (specifically Gran Turismo and Nina Persson who is insanely hot and badass), Alanis Morrisette, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, and pretty much any other female who showed me that all I needed in life was a guitar, eyeliner, and an El Dorado.

Food: I'm not entirely picky so long as it's good.

-Electricity
-My computer
-A flatiron
-My wallet
-A graphing calculator
-Flip flops

I spend a lot of time thinking about how much my life has changed over the last 21 years and how much it very well could change.

I spend a lot of time doubting myself and my ability to make good decisions, mostly because the last guy I dated was a 24 yr old who still slept with a teddy bear and "banky".

Sometimes I wonder what it is about me that's so weird that whenever I actually like a guy he ends up avoiding me like a plague or becoming one of my best friends but I generally attribute this to my tendency to compare relationships to a Cobb-Douglas function of maximum utility :/
I think I suffer from a severe case of Randall Munroe-itis. http://xkcd.com/55/

Most of the time I worry that all this thinking about myself makes me a self-centered person who has no patience for the outside world. On these days, I create characters for my stories completely outside of myself so I feel a little less inside myself.

Sitting at my computer messing around with Eclipse, watching movies, sometimes when I'm social I go out drinking with friends (usually this involves Crapplebee's at some point since we're all broke college/post college kids). When I'm not doing this, it usually means I'm at work or I have tests coming up.

I think Ubuntu is garbage. There - I said it.

There are 10 kinds of people in this world - those that understand binary and those that don't. The members of the first category should message me.