Education

• Western Washington University
• UC San Diego
• Grossmont College
• The Academy of Our Lady of Peace

Favorite saying

• ""But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives." — Haruki Murakami "Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the ‘good life,’ whatever it is and wherever it happens to be." — Hunter S. Thompson "You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting. " — Hook "So sing for every buried moment that you'd thought would never end. And sing your fears about the future; and a dirge for faded friends. For all the love that you had held to, why it somehow failed to keep. And sing each minute you've been frightened; every hour that you've lost sleep. And sing for all your friends and family; sing for those who didn't survive. But sing not for their final outcome; sing a song of how they tried. We live amidst a violent storm; leaves us unsatisfied at best, So fill your heart with what's important, and be done with all the rest." - 'The Last Lost Continent', La Dispute "We must never, ever be boring." — Chuck Palahniuk "In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken away from you." — Oscar Wilde "It's very beautiful over there. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful." — Thomas Edison (his last words)"