It's little ol' me!



Some info about your host!
She's a devoted woman, she studies evil all the time.

Born and Raised


I came into the world on Feb 20th and was dubbed Holly. The first 18 years of my life was spent in a little but growing town of Lapeer, Michigan. It's about half hour east of Flint, hour north of Detroit in the thumb area of Michigan. For those of you not from the great lake state, raise your right hand, palm towards your face, about a foot or so from the eyes. This is the Q&D map of Michigan. (And for those of you who don't know geography or are just bad with associations, the lower region of Michigan looks like a glove.) ^_^

I was raised by my mom (parents got divorced when I was two years old) who is currently working as a psych nurse/therapist for a female prison. Let me tell you, over the dinner table stories are VERY interesting. Just have a strong stomach.

A little interesting tid bit. I am the ONLY GRANDCHILD on BOTH SIDES of the family. Yes. This means I have no siblings and no first cousins. I do have two uncles (one was married in 1995, the other is single) and one aunt (never married). And from the look of things now. I will always be the ONLY GRANDCHILD. Spoiled? Maybe a little. Happy about the situation....yes. Though every once in a great while I'll kind of wish I had a brother or sister, then I just look at my life and say 'Nah. I like being the baby.'

Current Status

I've graduated (scary but true) from Kettering University. The school specializes in making engineers by beating the hell out of them for three months in class (12 weeks and ~20 credit hours) then shipping them off to a co-op for three months for sanity recovery. Sometimes it's a good job, great experience and getting paid to do something you really like to work on. Some jobs, however, you wonder if the company might be better hiring the guy with the 'Will work for food' sign.

So what did I major in, you ask? Well I'm one of the few true oddballs of KU and decided Environmental Chemistry sounded fun. It sure has been an up and down ride. I think one of the best parts would have to be our relative small class size (a total of five of us in my class). We worked well together and...I...well.. it's kind of like going to war. A group of people you don't know too well who end up saving your ass numerous times (and vice versa) living through a very stressful several years. With shared victories and losses you gain lifetime buddies. As for the downside, let's not go there. I could rant and rave for hours about the woes of the chemical life. Though I'm sure it's the same as almost any major. ^_^

As of this time, I'm working for the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in Bethesda, Maryland. Sounds impressive? Well, it's not really. No matter how you look at it, it's just a government job.

The group I work for engineers environmental systems to cut back waste and hazardous materials onboard Navy ships. Which I find is an oxymoron. We're trying to build ships that are kind to the environment so we can go and blow someone else's environment all to hell. Hmmm.....

Maryland is actually a great state. Got DC and Baltimore to go out to on the weekends. Plenty of site seeing and amusement parks within a decent driving distance. NYC not too far away. An ocean beach a couple hours away. Weather's not too extreme (though I miss snow). Plus, if there's anything you're looking for, there's a good chance you'll find it here. Like a place that rents anime!!

The Nicknames


Quik: This is the one nickname that everyone seems to call me. I was dubbed as such by my friend Bill one day in the school's cafe and since several people heard it, the name just stayed. Why Quik? Mainly because my last name resembles a famous chocolate company and because it represents some...interesting connotation. However a part of it was influenced by the fact I did not want to have to explain why people called me "Crunch". ^_^

The Dark Mistress: Here's a story. A long time ago in a playful land of Sigma Nu, there was a group of students gathered together to watch TV. Whilst one innocent stared in enthrallment at the screen, a devilish boy made plans for an attack. Before any in the room could react the girl was dragged from her comfy couch of doom to the floor via her legs which were embraced in a bear hug by the morally reprehensible boy. With a cocky grin and smug look to his face he asked, "Whatcha goin to do?" to which the girl replied "If you don't let go you're gonna get hurt."

The boy laughed at the irked innocent before him. Seriously, what could she do with her legs trapped under his steely grip? Ah, but ignorance can be painful. Realizing her situation was most likely to rapidly progress to a bad thing (such as tickling with no hope of returned fire), the girl struggled against the hold. It was then her minimum karate instincts kicked in and with her back to the floor, she twisted her hips with a thrust of one leg to land a square and hard blow to the temple of the boy. This caused a roar of "OOOOOOhhhhs!!!!" to rumble through the room as all had seen the boy receive the well deserved counter attack. He quickly crashed to the floor behind him and pronounced "Ouch."

The girl gave many apologies, for she really was not the violent type. She even baked cookies in atonement for her evil act. Yet, the incident was not forgotten. And upon opening a newsletter from the fraternity which states the goings and comings of brothers and groupies alike over the work term, she saw a list of deities. Each person was granted a name and special power. Lo and behold, The Dark Mistress of Pain was born.

MRSG (Morally Reprehensible Sample Goddess): This was given to me by a co-worker. Since I was just a lowly co-op (a government one at that, you know the kind where you can see the ladder of opportunity, know that it's there for climbing but can't get to it anyways?), I was given the job of entering A LOT of data into excel spreadsheets for a couple of work terms. And on one such work term, a contractor asked me if I was to be the sample goddess for my time there at work.

The prefix was not far behind in development. For reasons I have yet to understand, evil tends to be my companion. And through several e-mails between my self and Kim (another co-worker), the name slowly changed from sample goddess to evil sample goddess to morally reprehensible sample goddess. As you can see typing such a heavy and meaningful name is quite the burden therefore MRSG was the preferred sign off of many e-mails for several terms.

Other fun stuff you probably didn't want to know

We'll get back to this in a bit.....

Updated: 09/09/00

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