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| 2 | 2 … | title: About | |
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| 6 | -<img src="/g.jpg" class="profile full" style="float:left;"/> I'm Gwen Bell. Gwen is short for Gwendolyn. I'm not sure who named me, but I think it was my mom. She died when I was younger and that shaped the way I've turned out. Which is pretty grab-the-bull-by-the-hornsy. I've had to train myself to be still with yoga, meditation, stoic & buddhist training. | ||
| 6 … | +<img src="/g.jpg" class="profile full" style="float:left;"/>Hi, I'm Gwen. Gwen is short for Gwendolyn. I'm not sure who named me, but I think it was my mom. She died when I was younger and that shaped the way I've turned out. Which is pretty grab-the-bull-by-the-hornsy. I('ve) train(ed) myself to be still with yoga, meditation, stoic & buddhist practices. | ||
| 7 | 7 … | ||
| 8 | 8 … | ## Five Fast Facts | |
| 9 | 9 … | ||
| 10 | -1. I ride bare metal Linux, use Git for version control and pacman Syu multiple times a week. | ||
| 11 | -1. I travel with [@ev](http://evbogue.com). | ||
| 12 | -1. I have a degree in English Lit from UNC Chapel Hill fwiw. I now work on the command line daily -- I'm a self-taught entrepreneur and technologist. | ||
| 13 | -1. I've held down two full-time jobs. Teaching English in an elementary school in Japan and working as a bartender in America. Beyond that, it's been 100% entrepreneurship, 100% of the time. My first business was a yoga studio in Yokohama, Japan. | ||
| 14 | -1. I was born in the States and have lived a lot of my life abroad. | ||
| 10 … | ++ I ride bare metal Linux, use Git for version control and pacman Syu multiple times a week. | ||
| 11 … | ++ I travel with [@ev](http://evbogue.com). | ||
| 12 … | ++ I have a degree in English Lit from UNC Chapel Hill fwiw. I now work on the command line (node, git, arch, markdown, etc.)daily -- I'm a self-taught entrepreneur and technologist. | ||
| 13 … | ++ I've held down two full-time jobs. Teaching English in an elementary school in Japan and working as a bartender in America. Beyond that, it's been 100% entrepreneurship, 100% of the time. My first business was a yoga studio in Yokohama, Japan. | ||
| 14 … | ++ I was born in the States and have lived a lot of my life abroad. | ||
| 15 | 15 … | ||
| 16 | -Life in MX | ||
| 17 | ----------- | ||
| 16 … | +### About Life in MX | ||
| 18 | 17 … | ||
| 19 | 18 … | In 2006 I landed in Puerto Vallarta, MX to co-lead a yoga retreat in [Los Naranjos, Yelapa](http://www.yelaparetreat.com/retreats) from November 11th through the 18th. The taxi driver, an eldery gentleman, suggested that the two of us might sleep together. I pointed out that I'm about two feet taller than him. While stopped at a stoplight he retrieved an index card from his pocket. He drew a short person and a long person and said that in bed, height is not an issue. Aghast, I said a tiny prayer that I'd make it to the city center, laughing and crying at the same time. | |
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| 21 | 20 … | Somewhere in that week I emailed everyone I knew email addresses for in the States and Japan to let them know I intended to stay in Mexico. | |
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| 23 | 22 … | As in forever. I'd found a place I belong. | |
| 24 | 23 … | ||
| 25 | 24 … | *** | |
| 26 | 25 … | ||
| 27 | -I spent half of December 2006 in Ajijic, Mexico. Lake Chapala in Ajijic is a retirement village of sorts for _gringos_ who are old(er) and more hang-out-with-other-gringos-ish. It wasn't a good fit for me so I made short work of it and got out of there. But I could have just backpacked around a bit. And in retrospect, I wish I'd stayed on in Mexico. | ||
| 26 … | +I spent half of December 2006 in Ajijic, Mexico. Lake Chapala in Ajijic is a retirement village of sorts for _gringos_ who are old(er) and more hang-out-with-other-gringos-ish. It wasn't a good fit for me so I made short work of it and got out of there. But I could have just backpacked around a bit. And in retrospect, I wish I'd stayed on in Mexico. My paternal grandfather was from [Zacatecas, Mexico](http://www.visitmexico.com/en/heritage-city-zacatecas). My maternal great-grandmother was of Spanish descent. I dig it. | ||
| 28 | 27 … | ||
| 29 | -Why!? Well, because I belong here. My paternal grandfather was from [Zacatecas, Mexico](http://www.visitmexico.com/en/heritage-city-zacatecas). My maternal great-grandmother was of Spanish descent. | ||
| 28 … | +After 2006 lots of things happened. Many of them alright, some of them just plain awful. In 2009 I was in Mexico and got an email inviting me to go to the O'Reilly sponsored Social Web Foo Camp. I taught some [laptop yoga](https://www.flickr.com/photos/artificialignorance/3456948837/in/pool-1042032@N25/), met some tech folk, played some werewolf. After that I was given some recognition by Fast Company for being a woman in tech but I was a long way from where I wanted to be as a technologist at that point (I still have a long way to go). In 2011 I went to Sayulita and stayed at a hotel that has since closed/re-opened under another name. It was called La Casona in November 2011 -- I lived in the hotel for a month and accidentally made some internettermies by doing writing and taking photos of the place. Incidentally, internettermies is the reason I now [track issues](https://gitmx.com/%25sa%2FOgrHPhHCw8V0x2wrIgadRJANxQAKY6V9AP%2FF4iyw%3D.sha256) now, so people can bring things up early and often. | ||
| 30 | 29 … | ||
| 31 | -After 2006 lots of things happened. Many of them alright, some of them just plain awful. In 2009 I was in Mexico and got an email inviting me to go to the O'Reilly sponsored Social Web Foo Camp. I taught some [laptop yoga](https://www.flickr.com/photos/artificialignorance/3456948837/in/pool-1042032@N25/), met some tech folk, played some werewolf. In 2011 I went to Sayulita and stayed at a hotel that has since closed and re-opened under another name. It was called La Casona in November 2011 -- I lived in the hotel for a month and accidentally made some internettermies by doing writing and taking photos of the place. Incidentally, internettermies is the reason I now [track issues](https://gitmx.com/%25sa%2FOgrHPhHCw8V0x2wrIgadRJANxQAKY6V9AP%2FF4iyw%3D.sha256) now, so people can bring things up early and often. | ||
| 32 | - | ||
| 33 | 30 … | I moved to Mexico for real in 2013. I rented an apartment here for the first time and began studying the language in earnest. | |
| 34 | 31 … | ||
| 35 | -My life in three words: Yoga. Spanish. Tech. | ||
| 32 … | +My life in three words: **Yoga. Spanish. Tech.** | ||
| 36 | 33 … | ||
| 37 | -On repeat. | ||
| 34 … | +On repeat until I die. | ||
| 38 | 35 … | ||
| 39 | -Forever until I die. | ||
| 40 | - | ||
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