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- was adopted from russia as a baby, spent elementary school years in idfk where yet
- raised by two academics, was always a curious child and was given plenty of opportunities to explore new things
- bc of her curiosity, she tended to take things apart to see how they worked and put them back together, sometimes making tweaks to them, even from a young age, to make them work better. they didn't always work out. she learned largely through trial and error
- was sort of the awkward loner in her early days. totally that kid who spent recess and lunch in the library by themselves bc the librarian looked like ms frizzle and was probably her best friend tbh
- skipped the 3rd grade, was given the chance to skip 8th grade, but declined, because she didn't want to totally ostracize herself from her peers
- was sometimes teased by other kids bc of numerous reasons (skipped a grade, was smart [bc for some reason smart isn't cool??], her name was stupid, wore glasses, was kinda chubby, kept to herself, preferred books to people etc etc)
- had a short fucking temper, though, and wound up getting into several fights in elementary school, but mellowed out significantly in middle school, when her family moved to sault ste marie and she had a chance to sort of start over
- parents weren't around too much, they spent most of their time at the university
- by high school, she'd pretty much found that the key to survival was to make sure that she didn't come across as too smart or smarmy, still very much kept to herself and her close group of friends, largely the nerdy kids that played d&d, tinkered with electronics and discussed star trek in depth at lunch
- the first time she ever hacked into something was in her freshman year, when she managed a back door into the high school intranet, because a boy she liked had an overdue book and she didn't want him to get into trouble, except she wasn't totally sure what she was doing, so she got caught and suspended for three days
- bc puberty, she grew boobs and lost baby fat, but she still wore braces and basically it was the 90s and people made a lot of poor fashion choices back then lbr, she was basically the queen of the av club at that point
- she spent those three days learning as much as she could about coding, so that the next time she did something like that, she wouldn't get suspended. because that was really dumb and looking back, she could have kicked herself for it.
- the rest of high school was sort of normalish stuff blah blah classes, blah blah boyfriends, blah blah dances, science fairs, building battle bots (because saw arms), blah blah probably got stuffed shoved into a locker once, so she shoved the person who shoved her into a trash can. bc temper.
- was granted early admission to the cooper union after finishing high school a semester earlier than the rest of her classmates (she still went back and walked with her class when the actual graduation happened) -- studied mechanical engineering
- blah blah college junk, boring stuff, studies, extracurriculars, conventions, new york, waitressing, occasionally modeling, selling old cosplays/props, fixing friend's computers, basically doing any small jobs to make extra money and basically living entirely off coffee and adderall ahhhhhh
- an accident over spring break 2003 (?? gotta figure out what tho) put the breaks on her college career. at first opted to take the term off to recooperate, but eventually wound up withdrawing in favor of trying to "figure things out".
- spent the next year hopping trains around europe and basically squandering her life savings.
- moved back to michigan in fall of 2004 and basically didn't go back to school in a petulant effort to spite her parents, insisting that they should know that a degree does not intelligence make, you don't need to be in school to learn, etc etc etc
- despite recieving numerous job offers from tech start ups and even larger companies, she opted to spend the next few working in a local garage, first as a receptionist, then later as a mechanic (after her boss saw her mindlessly taking apart and putting together a carborator when she was bored one day.) she really just wanted to know she could get those jobs.
- finally changed her mind on the not living up to her potential thing when she was offered a job with google in the fall of 2009, prompting her to move out to california. where she was miserable. for nearly a three years. because even though the job was awesome, california for longer than a few days, maybe a week at a time, sorta sucks.
- landed a job with ipswitch, inc in late feb of 2012 and was in lexington, ma by early spring of the same year.
- stayed with ipswitch for just over a year before she finally felt herself burning out, because as it turns out, just because you're good at somthing, doesn't mean you have to do it. more to the point, it often sucks the fun and enjoyment out of things you love. so she quit in late summer of 2013 and moved to salem for the fall, where she fucked off and led tours and bartended for the remainder of the year.
- finally migrated to boston in november of 2013, where she quickly found a job at an autoshop in roxbury.
- still working in that same shop and does her best to keep a relatively low profile. most of her free time is spent at home watching movies, playing video games or tinkering with projects.
- idk more stuff and things??