All About Me

I've been trying to write a "bio" since what seems like the dawn of time, and I keep putting it off for reasons unbeknowst to me. I mean, it's obviously not because I don't like to write about myself, because come on, I have a blog. So whatever, I'm just going to crank one out and be done with it.

My name is Ami (pronounced AH-mee). I am 28 years old and East Indian. I moved to the United States (small town Iowa) from the United Kingdom in 1985, when I was in the second grade. I went to the University Of Iowa, where I graduated in December 2000 with a BS in Computer Science. My family had left Iowa by then (for Arizona), so I had no reason to stay after I graduated. When I was looking for a job I just threw resumes out everywhere. Thank you internet!

I took a Software Engineering position in Salt Lake City, UT, of all places. Off to Utah I went in February of 2001 (What? I took a couple of months off to hang out.) and I fully intended to live and work here for a couple of years and then move on to somewhere else. But I loved Utah, and the job was great, and over seven years later, I'm still here, same job and all.

And of course, there was a boy... Chris is 36, and is a cowboy from the great state of Wyoming. He is also an engineer, and works at the same place as myself. He's smart, cute, funny, and he likes me back, thereby meeting all of my criteria for the perfect man. He puts up with and encourages all most of my crazy ideas, thereby exceeding my criteria for the perfect man.

We bought an old POS house together in October 2005. Because I'm nuts. (See above about encouraging my crazy ideas.) We have two cats, Roxy and Hillary, and they annoy us. And each other. We were married in June 2007 and are currently living happily ever after.

Things I love to do include traveling, camping, gardening, eating fabulous meals, cooking fabulous meals, playing the guitar (poorly), skiing (even more poorly), drinking (exceptionally well), hiking, running, going to plays, working on our house, taking photographs, and hanging with friends, preferably near bodies of water or swimming pools.

Things I do not like doing include dishes, dusting, getting up in the morning, cleaning up cat puke, getting up in the middle of the night to kick cats out of our bedroom, and getting up in the middle of the night to let cats into our bedroom. Luckily, Chris does most of those things for us, including getting me up in the morning.

We are planning to procreate sometime in the couple of years after our wedding, which should be highly entertaining for all of those involved. We plan to spend our (rapidly diminishing) child-free months eating at fancy restaurants, sleeping until noon, and drinking lots of beer and wine.

posted by Ami @ Thursday, August 09, 2007