LJ Idol Presents:

Ellakite was too fast for me-- by the time I read the article and got back here, he'd hit me with the deadness! And the cookie, which kind of makes up for it.

I'm used to being someone who doesn't fit the typical model for women. Apparently, I don't fit the typical model for atypical women either. Or something.

I date from the era before PCs, but I liked math and science a lot, and wound up in computer science as my second career.

There still weren't and aren't a lot of women in the field. But when I started out, one of my coworkers had been a psychology major much as I'd been a music major. People sometimes drift where they find an affinity.

And for the women in my Computer Science masters' program, when the professor asked if we'd been encouraged in math and science... the answer for every one of us except the exchange student from Taiwan was "No." "So, why are you here?" he asked. "We didn't listen!"