Katheryn
S.
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Los Angeles, CA
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AGE:
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Age is a state of mind :)
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RECENT
PHOTOS:
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PROFESSION:
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My
background is physics, applied math, chemistry (and dance). My
entire adult career was devoted to military/government projects:
*educational breadth |
HOBBIES/Interests:
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Current projects: for Dark Angel Medical, LLC I've
been organizing their TacMed tips and adding my own knowledge when I
can and photos: click
I try to face my fears which is why self-defense is important to me,
but if anything will describe what I'm like, it's this: (click)
Socializing(socializing2),
Arts supporter, acting (sample 2),
ballet
(20+ yrs), self-defense( Shodan in Gosoku-Ryu karate from Tak Kubota
and Ben Otake, some Judo, some Iai-Do, some Shinshin
Mugendo) and firearms
instructor/competitor/hobbyist (tactical/defensive/precision long
range). Archery (I've competed
and bowhunted), cooking, Eating out (all styles!),
Making dinner and watching a good DVD with someone
close.
Not necessarily in that order! Foreign languages (near-fluency
French), Science/Engineering all types (applied math, neurophysiology,
pharmacology,
electronics,
microbiology,
RF,
etc), advanced first aid, CLS,
reloading, ballistics, (I
sometimes enjoy reading math/science in French click), Military
History
(esp Vietnam and after) - I bond with animals
(especially dogs) quickly :)
A work-in-progress, some of the early influences of my current
interests (click)
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LAST BOOK READ:
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starting Hunger
Games, Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Actually the last book I
read is too esoteric to mention here. |
LAST MOVIE SEEN:
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Underworld Awakening,
Columbiana, Real Steel, Knight and Day, 13 Assassins.
I am looking forward to seeing Hunger Games and Ridley Scott's
"Prometheus" (click),
a prequel to his first "Alien"
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FAVORITE
MOVIES:
(I love all genres) |
click for some of my favorite
DVDs
This
is kinda a random, incomplete, and stream-of-consciouness list.
My favorite movies span genres from B movie to film classics:
The
Shawshank Redemption, What Happens in Vegas, The Lake House, Iris, The
Notebook, Bruce Almighty, Tears of the Sun, Blood Diamond,
Angel-A, LA
Story,
Somewhere in Time, Shakespere in Love, Sense and Sensibility,
Cyrano de Bergerac (Depardieu), Anything
by F. Veber starting with Le Diner des Cons, Anything advised
by
Accuratus Ballistics (Heat, Ronin, Replacement Killers etc),
Neverending Story, Harry Potter, LOTR, Fifth Element, Blade Runner,
Blade Trinity, The Hurt Locker, Blackhawk Down, Shooter, Hamburger
Hill, We Were Young Once, Baghdad Hospital (HBO documentary), Aeon
Flux, Resident Evil tetralogy,
Being There, anything by Tim Burton, Orange County, Dude Where is My
Car, Dead Man on Campus, The Bourne franchise, Man on Fire, Manchurian
Candidate, Enemy of the State, I Am Legend, ad infinitum ... (way
too many to list here)
ps - one of my interests is guessing which movies have the best
technical advisors and have actually made a really good friend that way
off in the UK - hey Pete! :D |
FAVORITE
TV SHOWS: |
None
really. Food Network, Discovery, Dance and Singing
competitions. Figure Skating during Winter Olympics.
I
mostly enjoy watching DVDs. <ahem> Military
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RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- Remembering
where my keys were this morning
- re-learning subtleties of precision pistol and
getting more consistent at long range rifle.
- Pete (click) wrote a
wonderful reference for me!! (click)
- Tested the 1W laser on my AR (click)
- Built a Class IV 1300 mW 445nm laser in a 6P style
case (click)
- Completed the MossieTactics Carbine 2 Low-Light
course (click for cert
and group
photo)
- I made my own room lamp using a 1000 lumen LED array
- Received a Bar-Sto barrel for 9x19mm for my Sig P229
- Originally .40SW and .357Sig, Now 9x19mm too!
- old production Sig Sauer P229
- no rail, CTC grips, factory SRT/trigger group mods
- vetted to get a restricted tac training course yayy!
- being asked by DARK Angel Medical, LLC to
work with them :D THANK YOU KERRY AND LYNN - this made my year!!!!
- Finding and being able to incorporate my dad's
medical bag into my Adv First Response Medical Kit
- Inserting a Nasopharangeal Airway on myself!! (click)
- Upgrading both my tactical defense and medical skills
- Beginning to master 1000 yd shooting (click)
- improving and upgrading my sidearm and M4 skills
- Teaching a young lady about
things defensive and tactical
- Getting Certified in Executive Protection (click)
- Updating my firearms skills
- July 2011 - trying to get in-shape again
- May 2011 - taking ballet again!
- Took a FCC sample Technicians Radio License exam
without studying and got 70% (not passing)!
- Asked to join a modeling/actor's agency
- Submitted as an actress/stuntwomen for an
action movie in pre-production
- Being asked if I could be the armourer for an
indie.
- Getting credibility from people who are proven
experts and performers of a field in which I've had a
lifelong facination.
- Gaining more confidence in
myself. Starting to Blossom socially again!!!!!
- Continuing to review mon pauvre
français malgré je l'ai oublié presque
tout ce que j"ai appris!
- Getting out of my shell and finally making new
friends here in SoCal .
- Making new friends in Hawaii while I worked for
a software startup Summer 2007. A virtual reality engine.
- Doing some professional acting classes and did
extra work down here.
Always wanted to take acting classes but I was intimidated.
Meet tons of great people doing the film Balls of Fury.
Los Gatos, CA <2004
- Helping train a young figure skater
in ballet
line and musicality who recently made
Nationals. Having her skating coach see the difference in 3
weeks.
Having her thank me for making it possible.
<sigh blush>
- Helping
my âme-soeur Marcie
create, build, nurture a 5000
sqft quality Pilates and Ballet Studio in Los Gatos, CA, something
which she could take
over and really call it her own. The proudest and happiest
times in my life.
- Semi-professional
dancer, Ballet . Studied Jazz and some Modern.
- Read
both Harry Potter
and the Chambre of Secrets and The Universe in a
Nutshell, Stephan Hawking in French.
- Professional
scientific/engineering geek stuff in my history...too boring to place
here.
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WHY I DO WHAT I DO:
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Because I
enjoy people and want to be remembered as decent and kind when
I'm gone. Someday, it would be nice to be able to
professionally
use my background in science and the arts. To
gain the courage to be comfortable in life. To learn to be
kinder
to myself and family. To keep growing and learning
in all of my interests. Discovering new passions.
To
become
comfortable and effective in my new life in LA. I would like
to
find out if there's
actually another soul-mate out there to share my happiness
with as it was with M. I've always found tremendous reward in
making others
happy. (click)
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Spring 2009
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Dec 2011

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FAVORITE QUOTES:
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"Leave
a trail of good in your path through life." me
"Whenever
you look in the mirror don't be so critical, pretend that you're
trying to give words of encouragement to your best friend."
Larisa Sklyanskaia, San Francisco Ballet Staff and retired
Bolshoi Ballet
"Μολών
Λαβέ!"
King Leonidas' answer to the Persian envoy's request for surrender at
Thermopolae
"But,
I take no pleasure in the act itself. I do not hunt in order to kill,
but kill to have hunted. I hunt because I am a hunter".- Finn Aagard
"Ayo
Gurkhali!" The battle cry of the Nepalese Gurkha
'Let
the enemy touch your skin and you cut into his flesh; let him cut into
your flesh and you pierce into his bones; let him pierce into your
bones and you take his life!' " Araki Matayemon, founder of the
Yagyu sword style as quoted in the Hagakure
“ikkiri
jûgiri.” Literally, it means “one cut, ten cuts.”
I
will Support and defend the Constitution of the United States against
all enemies, foreign and domestic.
"Ecto gammit?
"...it means 'Never
without my permission'"
Fifth
Element
This is what drives my interest in small unit military
history:
"What
makes it possible for normal
people to operate sanely, correctly and bravely in frightening and
horrible situations?"
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PROFILE:
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Loves
people. I'm a sappy romantic. Eclectic interests.
Fear of speaking
before
crowds but not of performing in front of an audience.
Fearless
while protecting loved ones but timid on dates. Artistic yet
analytic. Thoughtful and
observent yet also an airhead.
Pasionate love of friends,
arts, people and
food.
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HER DRINKS:
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Caveat:
I don't drink often, I get migraines!
Cosmopolitans,
Classic Margarita, a nice champagne, Mojitos,
The "Elivs Presley" Chocolate Martini at the (?) bar in Old Town
Pasadena!
Note:
I am not much of a drinker. |
Yes, I love dogs and Nelson is the best one I've ever had! Ready
for some solo night practice in a really remote place.

Ballet 25+ yrs

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