About

- I like to jump and climb things. - I was born in Fresno, California, the same city that served birthplace to Gary Soto. This, of course, means that I will grow up to be a Mexican-American author and poet. (I still have time.) - I often have dreams in which I fly. My dream flight is reminiscent of Luigi's clumsy run-jump, except the clumsy run-jumping is only me warming up my tires. Afterwards, the flight is smooth and ethereal. - I could see myself teaching someday. I could also see myself writing books someday, pretty prose for people to run their fingers across. - Cats are a hobby of mine. - I enjoy singing and playing volleyball, but not at the same time. - I spent the majority of my life in North Carolina; there are good memories in North Carolina--and good people. - I have seven siblings and two parents. They make my life scenic. - I often harbor crushes for people with J-names. I don't know if that's because I seek them out or what. - When I give a massage, I pretend I'm having sex with the person because sensuality can't be faked. My grandmother taught me that. - I spend the majority of my birthday wishes on superpowers. - I like to go into bookstores and hide books. - I also like to read books in bookstores. - I am ethnically Hmong, but I speak Hmong like a giraffe speaks sophistication. Imagine a Twinkie, yellow on the outside, white on the inside. That Twinkie is me. I do, however, hold a sacred devotion to my culture (as we all should). - I'm a big fan of secluded bathrooms because I like to sing when I'm on the toilet. Also, I am poop shy. - When I was a child, I liked to catch butterflies, tie yarn to their abdomens, and fly them like kites. - Sometimes I get really sad about life and how I'm not living it. - I enjoy saying inappropriate things. - I am most irrevocably a Type B individual. - My favorite fruit is the pomegranate. - My favorite Pokemon is the Ninetales. - I like gay books and films. - I do not know my blood type, so don't ask. - I secretly want to be a girl and get into spectacular fights with other girls. Chun Li is my favorite street fighter because she has wicked blue kicks. - Sometimes when the doorbell rings and I don't feel like entertaining company, I hide under my bed. - Blonde hair is a weakness. - Yes, I do read Cosmopolitan magazines. - Sometimes I feel quite like a wallflower or a ghost or a wallflower ghost; I suppose I don't mind, though. - I will add things to this list.

Education

• Yale University
• North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics

Favorite saying

• ""Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long." ~e.e. cummings "I sing like I feel." ~Ella Fitzgerald "I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher." ~Jonathan Swift "I am large, I contain multitudes." ~Walt Whitman"