About
Welcome to gnomograms.com. Perhaps you would like to know a little more about this site? Even if you don’t, here comes some information.
I’m Melissa. I live with my husband Josh in Atlanta with 12 fish and 1 cat. When I started this blog, I was in graduate school. Essentially, I studied marine biology. Specifically, I studied how gorgonian corals use chemicals to protect themselves from disease (among other things). I got to do a lot of diving in the Florida Keys and the Bahamas. Some of the best times I had in grad school were because of the cool field work I got to do. Anyway, grad school kept me pretty busy, so I sort of sucked at updating this site.
I graduated in December 2005 and headed out to herd undergraduates around the South Pacific. I spent three months in New Zealand and Australia–all expenses paid, y’all. I kept an eye on the undergrads, and in my spare time I got to do whatever I wanted. It was so much fun, it hardly counts as a job. I LOVE traveling, and getting to spend 3 months in a new country was about the coolest thing ever.
I came back to the States in April 2006, and thus began my Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul. I was unemployed, broke, and trying to plan my wedding to Josh. I had a rough time finding a job, and I whined about it a lot here. Planning a wedding was a pain, but the wedding itself was fun. I found a job in a lab, but then it turned out to suck a whole lot. All of that compounded into some mental issues that I wrestled with for awhile before giving in and going to see a mental health professional. That was probably the best thing I’ve done for myself in a long time. Then I got a new job at The Internet–a huge data center that maintains servers for various companies (the reason I have dubbed this place “The Internet”). I answered phones and emails from customers for awhile, then I got promoted.
These days I work as a network security engineer at The Internet. I have a cubicle, which was much more exciting 6 months ago than it is now. I have a fish named Fry who lives in the cubicle with me. It’s not such a bad job.
That brings me to why I’ve named my site “gnomograms.com.” When I explained my new job to my friend, I told her The Internet was like a big garden of servers. She immediately thought of lots of garden gnomes, tending to all the servers. So when I was trying to think of a unique domain name, I decided to incorporate the server garden gnomes. Dorky, sure, but unique.
So now I write about life at The Internet, the unlimited free coffee here, married life, my fish, and miscellaneous other things.
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