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I am a GURL = {Cyber Geek} aka {Techie} aka  {Computer Nerd} + Female Human.  I love Technology, Gadgets, Computers, The Internet, Coding, and Programming.  I love learning new things and I like to share what I learn with others.  I also write about things that are related to life as a Cyber-Junkie and how it relates to me, others, the world, politics… . . . ANYTHING.  Mostly I like to share about things I learn about Web Design and Technology.  I live in The U.S. of A.   I went to school for many different things off and on for 8 years.  I just couldn’t pick one thing because I loved learning so much that I wanted to learn everything.  Growing up, I was really into Visual Arts, Theatre, Film, Music, and all that came with it.  I am a visual artist in all forms and a poet as well.  I haven’t painted or drawn in years because I have been trying to finish up a degree in Web Design/Development.  I got fed up with academia once and for all and cut lose.  Structured Learning Institutions just don’t do it for me.  I have to follow my own path and learn on my own as I go.  I learn some things fast and I am constantly teaching myself new things.  I have much to learn in the way of Web Design and Technology but that will never cease to be an issue as technology will always be changing, improving, and renewing itself.  I’m not sure exactly what the future holds but I am having a good time!!  I also mentioned I love music.  I was taught Suzuki violin at a young age, then piano, voice, and guitar.  I love to sing and perform but I am a very private person, so I don’t know how I would make a life of it.  I don’t really play any instruments at all anymore, but I could puck up the guitar and play “BlackBird” by The Beatles at any moment if I chose to.  If I had my own piano, I would definitely play more!!  I write a lot of poetry but haven’t published anything since I was in High School.  I recently started trying to use my poetry as lyrics.  I want to cut my own album as an MC, but I have more research and preparation to do for that.

So Your thinking, “This girl is so right brained!! How can she think like a programmer/coder at all?”

Well, that’s a mystery to me too, but I do it and it’s the one thing that I am continually drawn too daily for whatever reason.  Maybe it has to do with the fact that I am ambidextrous?  I have no idea, but somehow mathematics and language and visual arts are symbiotic and it all works together very nicely for me.

I’m about to tell you a lot of things about myself and my background, since this is supposed to be “About Me”.  If you’re not interested in me personally, my innermost feelings, thoughts, etc. {my life other than the Technical Geeky Things I like to blog about}, then you can just skip the next half of these posts, or skim over it.  Here Goes!!

I have attended College on and off for 8 years or so, as I said before.  I studied Psychology, Art History, Fine Art (Painting and Drawing, Sculpture, etc), then “Media Arts” (Photography, Video, Animation, Film, with a little bit of programming and Graphic Design) at what was called “Atlanta College of Art” in The Woodruff Arts Center Downtown on Peachtree Street, next to the High Museum.  However, the school was bought out by SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design), and I’m not sure what is going on now with it.  I enjoyed my time there very much and wish I would’ve stayed, but was out of funds and support at the time and I came down with Lyme’s Disease in 1998.  I wasn’t aware that was what it was until later after working with a group of Physicians to help diagnose me.  I had a lot of time to think,  as I was at times physically unable to move.  I watched a lot of TV and when that bored me I began to read (when I wasn’t in horrendous pain or unable to think).  I studied religion, philosophies, read biographies, and fiction as well.  I read a lot of poetry and listened to a lot of music.  I had friends around occasionally but I was so embarrassed of my condition that I kept to myself as much as possible.  There’s nothing like a brush with a possibly fatal and debilitating disease to find out who you can really trust, and who really cares (friends and family).  I had to quit school and couldn’t work and I was so humiliated.  I was only one year away from graduating.  I was making great grades and was really doing well.  I truly believe that Fate is out of our hands in life as a result of my experiences in life as a whole.  So I have to believe that everything has a reason and a purpose for happening, because no matter how well you manage your life and how dedicated and disciplined and focused you are, SHIT happens that you can’t stop or control.  Things you never imagined that would ever occur in life, let alone to yourself.