All About Me
(Well, no, not really, this is just a brief bio)


It all began back in 1978 in a town called Wappingers Falls, which is north of NYC but south of Albany, in New York. That was when half my chromosomes met the other half. Following that, I grew for about nine months, until I decided I was ready to come into the real world. So, on February 1st, 1979, I was born with the name Kristy Lynn Danieli. After that, I did some more growing. I learned to eat solid foods, to walk, and to speak (well, sort of). I could say my name (well, almost). More time passed, we moved to Pleasant Valley, NY, which isn't too far from Wappingers, and I got taller, more steady on my feet, and I learned to pronounce my "K"s and "R"s. (I was no longer 'Disty'.) When I was about 3 and a half, I got a new baby sister named Cindi, well, no, actually, she was named Cynthia Jean Danieli. But we all called her Cindi. After that, we both grew and learned to do new things.

Now, I'll get into stuff I can actually remember. Started my education in Estelle and Alfonso's Dance Studio for Nursery School. ('Remember' is used loosesly, here.) A year later, I started Kindergarten at Traver Road Elementary School in the Arlington School District. The first day of school, I sat with my imaginary friends, Peter and Simon on the bus. That is my only clear memory of Kindergarten.

Even more time passed, and I made real friends, and eventually, I figured out how to use a pair of sissors. I learned to read and soon became very fond books. The Littles and the Bobsey Twins were my first series. Cindi got old enough to play with, and when I was around 7, my brother was born with the name Joseph Peter Danieli, Jr. Mom wouldn't let us dress him up in our Cabbage Patch Doll outfits. Go figure.

Years went by, and I read over 200 Baby Sitters Club books, and at least as many Hardy Boys books. By ninth grade, I put away the Cabbage Patch kids and the Barbies. (Read that as, 'in ninth grade I put away . . .'; this was significantly later than most of my peers, but I was on Cindi-time, and Cindi was three years younger than me.) Even after 9th, though I was still playing with one toy; Playmobils.

During high school, I had exactly 4 after school activities: Homework, reading, Playmobils, and Environmental Club. This last was why I majored in Environmental Engineering for Undergrad even though I had no idea what it was. All I knew was that I didn't want to be an Envi Sci because I did not enjoy AP Bio. Playmobils was a precursor to writing, I'm sure of it. In fact the first story I attempted to write was about my character Bobby from Playmobils.

Speaking of writing, by the end of my senior year of HS, Cindi and I had jointly written over a hunded pages of a novel we were calling The Universe Divided. I'm not sure when we started writing at the Excite boards online, but it was around this time, as well. Then, we decided The Universe Divided was all wrong and poorly written, so we scrapped the whole thing. Also, the boards were starting to die, so we started the CRC during the summer of 1998, between my freshman and sophmore years of college. That is still going. Theoretically.

Anyway, I graduated HS and went to RPI for college. Eventually I graduated college and decided to come back for graduate school. What I did during college, you can figure out through my Activities and Academics links.

And that, my friends, is all about me.

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