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SoldierHawk

2011-08-24T17:50:11Z

SoldierHawk: /* Employment */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Dresssig.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

'''“The greatest strength is gentleness.” -Cherokee proverb'''

Particularly meaningful to SoldierHawk, as she is part Cherokee. (A small part to be sure, but it is something she does identify with and is proud of.) As unavoidable and as necessary as violence can be sometimes, she still firmly believes this to be the truth, and does her best to keep it in mind at all times.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

===Mod status===

SoldierHawk is a moderator on the Sydlexia forums. The fact that she lives on the West Coast (PST) allows her to keep an eye on things at times when other mods tend to be away.

Just remember...she is watching you.
[[Image:Hawkeye.jpg]]

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to gain the forum members' trust and observe them their natural habitat.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently between jobs, and actively seeking full time employment.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a Second Lieutenant in the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the 640th ASB out of LA. She the platoon leader of Charlie Company, 1st platoon, an aviation support signal corps company.

She was commissioned through San Diego State Army ROTC on May 20th, 2011

== Fool suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread.

The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2011-08-24T17:49:41Z

SoldierHawk: /* Education */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Dresssig.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

'''“The greatest strength is gentleness.” -Cherokee proverb'''

Particularly meaningful to SoldierHawk, as she is part Cherokee. (A small part to be sure, but it is something she does identify with and is proud of.) As unavoidable and as necessary as violence can be sometimes, she still firmly believes this to be the truth, and does her best to keep it in mind at all times.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

===Mod status===

SoldierHawk is a moderator on the Sydlexia forums. The fact that she lives on the West Coast (PST) allows her to keep an eye on things at times when other mods tend to be away.

Just remember...she is watching you.
[[Image:Hawkeye.jpg]]

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to gain the forum members' trust and observe them their natural habitat.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a Second Lieutenant in the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the 640th ASB out of LA. She the platoon leader of Charlie Company, 1st platoon, an aviation support signal corps company.

She was commissioned through San Diego State Army ROTC on May 20th, 2011

== Fool suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread.

The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2011-08-24T17:49:24Z

SoldierHawk: /* Military service */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Dresssig.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

'''“The greatest strength is gentleness.” -Cherokee proverb'''

Particularly meaningful to SoldierHawk, as she is part Cherokee. (A small part to be sure, but it is something she does identify with and is proud of.) As unavoidable and as necessary as violence can be sometimes, she still firmly believes this to be the truth, and does her best to keep it in mind at all times.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

===Mod status===

SoldierHawk is a moderator on the Sydlexia forums. The fact that she lives on the West Coast (PST) allows her to keep an eye on things at times when other mods tend to be away.

Just remember...she is watching you.
[[Image:Hawkeye.jpg]]

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to gain the forum members' trust and observe them their natural habitat.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a Second Lieutenant in the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the 640th ASB out of LA. She the platoon leader of Charlie Company, 1st platoon, an aviation support signal corps company.

She was commissioned through San Diego State Army ROTC on May 20th, 2011

== Fool suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread.

The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2011-03-20T03:56:52Z

SoldierHawk: /* Binky Birthday Song video */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Dresssig.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

'''“The greatest strength is gentleness.” -Cherokee proverb'''

Particularly meaningful to SoldierHawk, as she is part Cherokee. (A small part to be sure, but it is something she does identify with and is proud of.) As unavoidable and as necessary as violence can be sometimes, she still firmly believes this to be the truth, and does her best to keep it in mind at all times.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

===Mod status===

SoldierHawk is a moderator on the Sydlexia forums. The fact that she lives on the West Coast (PST) allows her to keep an eye on things at times when other mods tend to be away.

Just remember...she is watching you.
[[Image:Hawkeye.jpg]]

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to gain the forum members' trust and observe them their natural habitat.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread.

The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2011-03-20T03:55:27Z

SoldierHawk: /* Binky Birthday Song video */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Dresssig.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

'''“The greatest strength is gentleness.” -Cherokee proverb'''

Particularly meaningful to SoldierHawk, as she is part Cherokee. (A small part to be sure, but it is something she does identify with and is proud of.) As unavoidable and as necessary as violence can be sometimes, she still firmly believes this to be the truth, and does her best to keep it in mind at all times.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

===Mod status===

SoldierHawk is a moderator on the Sydlexia forums. The fact that she lives on the West Coast (PST) allows her to keep an eye on things at times when other mods tend to be away.

Just remember...she is watching you.
[[Image:Hawkeye.jpg]]

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to gain the forum members' trust and observe them their natural habitat.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread.

The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4&feature=player_embedded

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2011-03-20T03:54:38Z

SoldierHawk: /* Employment */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Dresssig.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

'''“The greatest strength is gentleness.” -Cherokee proverb'''

Particularly meaningful to SoldierHawk, as she is part Cherokee. (A small part to be sure, but it is something she does identify with and is proud of.) As unavoidable and as necessary as violence can be sometimes, she still firmly believes this to be the truth, and does her best to keep it in mind at all times.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

===Mod status===

SoldierHawk is a moderator on the Sydlexia forums. The fact that she lives on the West Coast (PST) allows her to keep an eye on things at times when other mods tend to be away.

Just remember...she is watching you.
[[Image:Hawkeye.jpg]]

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to gain the forum members' trust and observe them their natural habitat.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread.

The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1Rdx47O4M

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2010-01-26T03:21:07Z

SoldierHawk: /* Gender */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Dresssig.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

'''“The greatest strength is gentleness.” -Cherokee proverb'''

Particularly meaningful to SoldierHawk, as she is part Cherokee. (A small part to be sure, but it is something she does identify with and is proud of.) As unavoidable and as necessary as violence can be sometimes, she still firmly believes this to be the truth, and does her best to keep it in mind at all times.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

===Mod status===

SoldierHawk is a moderator on the Sydlexia forums. The fact that she lives on the West Coast (PST) allows her to keep an eye on things at times when other mods tend to be away.

Just remember...she is watching you.
[[Image:Hawkeye.jpg]]

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to gain the forum members' trust and observe them their natural habitat.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread.

The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1Rdx47O4M

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2010-01-22T20:01:16Z

SoldierHawk: /* Gender */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Dresssig.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

'''“The greatest strength is gentleness.” -Cherokee proverb'''

Particularly meaningful to SoldierHawk, as she is part Cherokee. (A small part to be sure, but it is something she does identify with and is proud of.) As unavoidable and as necessary as violence can be sometimes, she still firmly believes this to be the truth, and does her best to keep it in mind at all times.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

===Mod status===

SoldierHawk is a moderator on the Sydlexia forums. The fact that she lives on the West Coast (PST) allows her to keep an eye on things at times when other mods tend to be away.

Just remember...she is watching you.
[[Image:Hawkeye.jpg]]

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe the Sydlexia forum members in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread.

The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1Rdx47O4M

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-12-20T07:19:02Z

SoldierHawk: /* Binky Birthday Song video */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Dresssig.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

'''“The greatest strength is gentleness.” -Cherokee proverb'''

Particularly meaningful to SoldierHawk, as she is part Cherokee. (A small part to be sure, but it is something she does identify with and is proud of.) As unavoidable and as necessary as violence can be sometimes, she still firmly believes this to be the truth, and does her best to keep it in mind at all times.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

===Mod status===

SoldierHawk is a moderator on the Sydlexia forums. The fact that she lives on the West Coast (PST) allows her to keep an eye on things at times when other mods tend to be away.

Just remember...she is watching you.
[[Image:Hawkeye.jpg]]

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread.

The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d1Rdx47O4M

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-11-25T06:05:56Z

SoldierHawk: /* Forum identifiers */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Dresssig.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

'''“The greatest strength is gentleness.” -Cherokee proverb'''

Particularly meaningful to SoldierHawk, as she is part Cherokee. (A small part to be sure, but it is something she does identify with and is proud of.) As unavoidable and as necessary as violence can be sometimes, she still firmly believes this to be the truth, and does her best to keep it in mind at all times.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

===Mod status===

SoldierHawk is a moderator on the Sydlexia forums. The fact that she lives on the West Coast (PST) allows her to keep an eye on things at times when other mods tend to be away.

Just remember...she is watching you.
[[Image:Hawkeye.jpg]]

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread. Unfortnetly the original video (A five minute loop of the song) was taken off YouTube. She did find a substitute however, an actual clip from the Garfield episode which includes Binky singing the song several times as Garfield tries to avoid him. (Quite apt, given some forum member's feelings about Binky and the video.) The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

File:Hawkeye.jpg

2009-11-25T06:04:56Z

SoldierHawk:

Tim Curry

2009-11-12T18:21:37Z

SoldierHawk:

Tim Curry is fucking awesome, and always elevates everything he has ever even glanced in the direction of.

Anyone who disagrees will be Crabbed by [[SoldierHawk]].

He's also [[jprime]]'s favorite actor.

Behold the evidence of his awesomeness:
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/11/tim_currys_10_weirdest_roles.php

SoldierHawk

2009-11-11T19:46:46Z

SoldierHawk: /* Signature */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Dresssig.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

'''“The greatest strength is gentleness.” -Cherokee proverb'''

Particularly meaningful to SoldierHawk, as she is part Cherokee. (A small part to be sure, but it is something she does identify with and is proud of.) As unavoidable and as necessary as violence can be sometimes, she still firmly believes this to be the truth, and does her best to keep it in mind at all times.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread. Unfortnetly the original video (A five minute loop of the song) was taken off YouTube. She did find a substitute however, an actual clip from the Garfield episode which includes Binky singing the song several times as Garfield tries to avoid him. (Quite apt, given some forum member's feelings about Binky and the video.) The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

File:Dresssig.jpg

2009-11-11T19:46:14Z

SoldierHawk: Hawk's dress sign

Hawk's dress sign

File:Dress sig.png

2009-11-11T19:43:20Z

SoldierHawk: Hawks dress sig

Hawks dress sig

The SydLexia D&D Campaign

2009-09-26T05:33:48Z

SoldierHawk: /* Players */

Fernin decided to open the floodgates and drown in the excess of the many D&D games he was also DMing by offering to run a game in the chatroom. 8 people were originally chosen to be the Heroes of his Legend, but this number has dwindled down. The group usually meets around Friday at midnight (Eastern time) and usually stops around 2 in the morning unless everyone's cool with playing longer.

'''Attendance Policy''' 
Players receive 200 XP for showing up, even if a session is cancelled. 
In the event a player cannot make a session, their character is dormant for all intents and purposes (barring other players roleplaying around the inactivity). This includes combats (since your character does not exist for the session, enemies can't/don't attack him/her). 
If the headcount for players is less than or equal to half the total group of players, the game will be called off.
 
'''House Rules''' 
1.) Drawing/sheathing weaponry is a free action, however you must be aware of a threat or have some other reasonable excuse to draw your weapon. I.e. you can't draw your longsword during the enemy's surprise round. 
2.) When it's relevant, the Improved Critical feat stacks with keen weaponry or weapons affected by the keen edge spell. 
3.) Whenever you level up, don't roll for your hit points. You gain the maximum outcome of the die roll. Furthermore, you are fully healed to your new maximum HP total (and any nonlethal damage is reset to 0).
 
 
== The World ==
Currently, the game takes place within the Kingdom of Baryus [http://ferahgo.8m.com/Map.png/]. Below is a description of the various towns. 
Tellour - Village settled in the middle of a deep, thick forest. Area around the village has been cleared out, but there are no major paths leading in or out. Self sufficient village, relies on the forest for everything it needs. Trade with other cities is uncommon, but there are certain traders who know the forest well enough to come and go occasionally. 
Nior - Town with high outer walls and paranoid citizens. Something horrible happened to the town in the past, left them scared and mistrusting of strangers, outsiders, and very fearful of monsters. Has no trade with other cities whatsoever, citizens tend to be packrats. 
Baryus - Castle city, center of government for the region. Duke Hacchus reigns. Typical bustling city, large market, plenty of houses, lots of crime taking place in the dark, back alleys. Nobles live in grandeur while average citizens live in squalor. Knight squads attempt to control crime and keep the peace. 
Jovelle - Island city on Lake Lothar. Ferry system from Jovelle to Ceron, Baryus, Albedus, and numerous locations on the lake shore. Trades extensively with other cities, as the town can't support itself. Citizens tend to be craftsmen and mages, as there is no suitable land for farming or otherwise gathering. Fishermen are also very common. 
Ceron - Extensive farming village. Much of the food grown here gets traded away to Jovelle, Baryus, and Heline. Many work on the farms in their youth and go on to become adventurers later in life. Citizen militia trained to defend the city, as groups of bandits and monstrous creatures tend to roam the open lands. 
Albedus - Port city, large focus on fishing and sailing. Many adventurers leave from here to travel the oceans. Traders travel up and down the river with goods, usually ending up here. Parts of the city are built on the river bank, parts of the city float on the river itself, tethered with ropes and chains. The citizens look badly upon anyone who wears heavy armor in the floating sections. 
Heline - Town settled in the Ragnor Mountain range. Stairs and ramps are hewn into the mountainside for traders and travellers, but the citizens prefer to traverse the mountain itself. They pride themselves on strength, and feel that any who fall from the mountain must have been too weak to survive anyway. Many parts of the village are high enough to see snow nearly year round. 
 
== Players ==
'''Active Players''' 
[[Lordsathien]], player of the human druid Taran Almasy (and hawk companion Orseph) 
[[Not_Sure]], player of Suntoer, the quiet, yet ferocious falchion-wielding half-orc barbarian. 
[[LowEndLem]], player of Terramos Leyarn, human cleric. 
[[Valdronius]], player of Derickt, the human sorcerer with a propensity for dual-wielding. Has a Calico familiar named Sieryn. 
[[Ghandi]], player of Jox Ashwood, halfling rogue. 
Dignant, (a friend of Sathien's) plays Fenuran, a gnome knight with a dire badger for a mount. 
[[SoldierHawk]] , player of Accipiter Yaara Dulintaure (Piter for short), female half-elf Ranger, and her companion Tornat, a hawk.
 
'''Retired Players''' 
[[AKAFred]], player of Fred, human bard. Now follows the group and remains in the tavern of each city, singing tales of the group and drinking the days away. 
[[docinsano]], player of Beauregard Tau, human fighter. 
[[usasatsui]], player of Suzume, human shugenja (air affinity). 
[[Neutral-Bob]], player of Gato, human ninja. 
[[Lottel]], player of Falash, gnome rogue. 
[[slayer1]], player of Viktor, half-elf cleric of St. Cuthbert 
 
'''??? Players''' 
These are players that either haven't been around in a few sessions or occasional-frequent scheduling conflicts but haven't stated that they are bowing out either. 
[[Crazy-Bastard]], real life issues make it difficult but not impossible to keep up with the campaign.
 

== See Also ==
[[Dungeons & Dragons]] 
GameTable, the program used for most game sessions '''''when it wants to work''''' (or at least the ones that involve combat) [http://gametable.galactanet.com/].

Iron Maiden

2009-09-23T23:49:48Z

SoldierHawk: New page: The greatest metal band--nay, the greatest BAND--ever, in the history of the world, forever and ever, period, amen, end of discussion.

The greatest metal band--nay, the greatest BAND--ever, in the history of the world, forever and ever, period, amen, end of discussion.

SoldierHawk

2009-09-21T05:43:58Z

SoldierHawk: /* Fool Suffering */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

'''“The greatest strength is gentleness.” -Cherokee proverb'''

Particularly meaningful to SoldierHawk, as she is part Cherokee. (A small part to be sure, but it is something she does identify with and is proud of.) As unavoidable and as necessary as violence can be sometimes, she still firmly believes this to be the truth, and does her best to keep it in mind at all times.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread. Unfortnetly the original video (A five minute loop of the song) was taken off YouTube. She did find a substitute however, an actual clip from the Garfield episode which includes Binky singing the song several times as Garfield tries to avoid him. (Quite apt, given some forum member's feelings about Binky and the video.) The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-19T10:43:59Z

SoldierHawk: /* Current */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

'''“The greatest strength is gentleness.” -Cherokee proverb'''

Particularly meaningful to SoldierHawk, as she is part Cherokee. (A small part to be sure, but it is something she does identify with and is proud of.) As unavoidable and as necessary as violence can be sometimes, she still firmly believes this to be the truth, and does her best to keep it in mind at all times.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread. Unfortnetly the original video (A five minute loop of the song) was taken off YouTube. She did find a substitute however, an actual clip from the Garfield episode which includes Binky singing the song several times as Garfield tries to avoid him. (Quite apt, given some forum member's feelings about Binky and the video.) The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-19T10:40:37Z

SoldierHawk: /* Current */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''"It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread. Unfortnetly the original video (A five minute loop of the song) was taken off YouTube. She did find a substitute however, an actual clip from the Garfield episode which includes Binky singing the song several times as Garfield tries to avoid him. (Quite apt, given some forum member's feelings about Binky and the video.) The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-19T10:40:21Z

SoldierHawk: /* Quotes */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

==== Current ====

'''It doesn't matter where we come from, what we've done or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world was what it should be, to show it what it can be.” -Wesley Wyndham-Pryce'''

A longer quote, but one of SoldierHawk's favorites, spoken by one of her favorite fictional characters. If her philosophy could be summed up in a single quote, she thinks it would be this one.

==== Past ====

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

*A quote SoldierHawk believes to be quite poingient, and very true. From one of her favorite TV shows, Firefly.

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

*This will remain in SoldierHawk's sig for as long as it amuses her, or until the thought of Twilight ceases to make her physically ill.

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread. Unfortnetly the original video (A five minute loop of the song) was taken off YouTube. She did find a substitute however, an actual clip from the Garfield episode which includes Binky singing the song several times as Garfield tries to avoid him. (Quite apt, given some forum member's feelings about Binky and the video.) The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-19T10:28:07Z

SoldierHawk: /* Special signatures */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) Although most of these observances are only one day, she traditionally leaves the special image in her sig for a week to make sure everyone has time to see it. The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

This is the short quote that SoldierHawk feels sums her up the best. It is from one of her favorite TV shows, ''Firefly.''

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

This is a classic quote from SoldierHawk's ''Twilight'' thread. It will stay in her sig as long as it continues to make her laugh, or until the thought of ''Twilight'' stops making her physically ill.

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread. Unfortnetly the original video (A five minute loop of the song) was taken off YouTube. She did find a substitute however, an actual clip from the Garfield episode which includes Binky singing the song several times as Garfield tries to avoid him. (Quite apt, given some forum member's feelings about Binky and the video.) The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-19T08:41:36Z

SoldierHawk: /* The Binky Birthday Song video */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

This is the short quote that SoldierHawk feels sums her up the best. It is from one of her favorite TV shows, ''Firefly.''

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

This is a classic quote from SoldierHawk's ''Twilight'' thread. It will stay in her sig as long as it continues to make her laugh, or until the thought of ''Twilight'' stops making her physically ill.

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread. Unfortnetly the original video (A five minute loop of the song) was taken off YouTube. She did find a substitute however, an actual clip from the Garfield episode which includes Binky singing the song several times as Garfield tries to avoid him. (Quite apt, given some forum member's feelings about Binky and the video.) The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-19T08:41:12Z

SoldierHawk: /* Signature */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only.

==== Special signatures ====

SoldierHawk does, on occasion, change her usual signature graphics to honor specific special days and events (usually national observances that have some connection to the military.) The special sigs she has used so far (and plans to use every year on the respective date) are as follows:

[[Image:Memorialdaysignature.jpg]]
[[Image:911signature.jpg]]
[[Image:Powmiadaysignature.jpg]]

=== Quotes ===

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

This is the short quote that SoldierHawk feels sums her up the best. It is from one of her favorite TV shows, ''Firefly.''

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

This is a classic quote from SoldierHawk's ''Twilight'' thread. It will stay in her sig as long as it continues to make her laugh, or until the thought of ''Twilight'' stops making her physically ill.

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== The Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread. Unfortnetly the original video (A five minute loop of the song) was taken off YouTube. She did find a substitute however, an actual clip from the Garfield episode which includes Binky singing the song several times as Garfield tries to avoid him. (Quite apt, given some forum member's feelings about Binky and the video.) The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

File:Powmiadaysignature.jpg

2009-09-19T08:40:36Z

SoldierHawk: Hawk's POW/MIA day sig

Hawk's POW/MIA day sig

File:911signature.jpg

2009-09-19T08:40:06Z

SoldierHawk: Hawk's 9/11 sig

Hawk's 9/11 sig

File:Memorialdaysignature.jpg

2009-09-19T08:38:08Z

SoldierHawk: Hawk's Memorial day sig

Hawk's Memorial day sig

SoldierHawk

2009-09-16T18:15:49Z

SoldierHawk:

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only. This could change in the future due to circumstances and/or boredom.

=== Quotes ===

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

This is the short quote that SoldierHawk feels sums her up the best. It is from one of her favorite TV shows, ''Firefly.''

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

This is a classic quote from SoldierHawk's ''Twilight'' thread. It will stay in her sig as long as it continues to make her laugh, or until the thought of ''Twilight'' stops making her physically ill.

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== The Binky Birthday Song video ==

Near the beginning of her forum tenure, SoldierHawk began the tradition of posting a video of Binky the Clown (from one of her favorite cartoons, Garfield and Friends) singing his version of "Happy Birthday" in every forum member's birthday thread. Unfortnetly the original video (A five minute loop of the song) was taken off YouTube. She did find a substitute however, an actual clip from the Garfield episode which includes Binky singing the song several times as Garfield tries to avoid him. (Quite apt, given some forum member's feelings about Binky and the video.) The correct, official video can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21ULk-fAp4

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-15T06:54:41Z

SoldierHawk:

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only. This could change in the future due to circumstances and/or boredom.

=== Quotes ===

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

This is the short quote that SoldierHawk feels sums her up the best. It is from one of her favorite TV shows, ''Firefly.''

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

This is a classic quote from SoldierHawk's ''Twilight'' thread. It will stay in her sig as long as it continues to make her laugh, or until the thought of ''Twilight'' stops making her physically ill.

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Sports ==

SoldierHawk is a huge fan of both football and ice hockey. She has played both; PowerPuff (yes, she hates the name) tackle football in high school (she was a running back) and ice hockey (played inter-mural in college, since UAF doesn't allow women on the school team--she was a center).

She was, is, and will forever be a diehard fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Edmonton Oilers. Emmitt Smith is her favorite football player, and Gretzky is her all-time favorite hockey player. She really, really loved Chris Pronger and Ryan Smyth, but its really better not to mention those two names around her anymore.

SoldierHawk also harbors a lesser-known (or at least lesser-mentioned) love of figure skating. Kurt Browning is her favorite skater by far, followed by Scott Hamilton Brian Orser, Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.

She is also a second-degree black belt in kempo, and will ''kick your ass'' if you make any figure skating jokes.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-15T06:47:58Z

SoldierHawk: /* Employment */

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only. This could change in the future due to circumstances and/or boredom.

=== Quotes ===

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

This is the short quote that SoldierHawk feels sums her up the best. It is from one of her favorite TV shows, ''Firefly.''

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

This is a classic quote from SoldierHawk's ''Twilight'' thread. It will stay in her sig as long as it continues to make her laugh, or until the thought of ''Twilight'' stops making her physically ill.

== Gender ==

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed for several years as a ranch hand at Rawhide Ranch in Bonsall, CA. She actually lived on the ranch, and wore boots and a cowboy hat as part of her required work attire. Her duties included breaking and training horses, teaching riding classes and caring for various livestock. (FUN FACT: the only broken bone SoldierHawk has ever suffered was her wrist, which was snapped backwards in a particularly vicious sheep attack.) Before college and during breaks, she also worked at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credential, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-15T06:43:46Z

SoldierHawk: /* Education */

What happened to the music?

2009-09-09T01:17:40Z

SoldierHawk:

A phrase uttered by Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid.

So Snake, what exactly did happen to the music? I wanna know...

[[Category:Video Gaming]]
[[Category:Phrases]]

Nickelback

2009-09-09T01:16:26Z

SoldierHawk: /* The lead singer */

[[Nickelback]] is an extremely crappy "rock/alternative" band.

== The lead singer ==

The lead singer of Nickelback is Chad Kroeger. He's the main reason why Nickelback sucks. He's an absolutely terrible singer, and something is wrong with his mouth. Chad's mouth is like some black abyss of fecal doom. Next time you happen to see a Nickelback performance, a Nickelback music video, or simply an interview with Chad Kroeger, don't pay attention to anything but the movement of his mouth. You'll know what I mean then.

== Why they suck ==

* Chad Kroeger
* The music (i.e. a cheap, sleazy, craptastic rip-off of Alice in Chains)
* Ever heard that song "Rockstar"? Blech...
* Obnoxious, brain-dead, white-trash lyrics
* A complete lack of anything resembling a sense of humor
* They just suck across the board

== Redeeming qualities ==

* There's this song called "Animals" on their newest album. The song is actually quite good, and a definitely nice change of pace for Nickelback.
* Their first album was quite good. Listen to 'Leader of Men'.
* Chad Kroeger's mansion is less than half an hour from [[Ross Rifle]]. Ross plans on egging his house in the name of Sydlexia and Rock N Roll.

== External Nickelback Media ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7F3O6WYfHQ Youtube - being booed off the stage]

[[Category:Band]]

Sydapedia Style Discussion

2009-09-09T01:14:51Z

SoldierHawk:

If you want to discuss how this site looks, feels, or anything else about how it functions please post your comments to: [[Talk:Sydapedia_Style_Discussion]]

Thanks to [[User:Gpfontaine|Gishman P. Fontaine]] 09:36, 13 January 2008 (PST)

Candle...guy

2009-09-09T01:14:16Z

SoldierHawk:

This meme/joke/what-have-you refers to an episode of Freakazoid. The villain is a hooded bogeyman named...well, I can't say it, or else. See, he can't get you unless you say his name. Once you say his name, though, he comes to take you away, and you (your post, anyways), will never be heard from again.

He can also get you in the [[IRC Channel]], so be careful.

So be careful, when you post, don't ever type in "Candlejack", or you mi

[[Category:Forum Jokes]]

B.B. King

2009-09-09T01:13:48Z

SoldierHawk:

[[Image:Seal_of_Bannination.png|thumb||right|[[Banned users|User has been banned.]]]]
B.B. King is a famous blues musician who totally kicks ass. Unfortunately for this highly talented individual, his name was misappropriated by a bisexual junkie named Brendan Black (BB) who was a massive troll on the SydLexia.com forums. This encyclopedia entry is about the latter.

B.B. King was one of the first real members of the forums and at the time, he seemed pretty cool. But by 2007, he was an embarrassment to the forums. His drug-adled brain had degenerated his typing skills and coherency to RegalSin-like levels. He was [[Banned users|banned]] in October 2007 for being a total dick.

==External links==
*[http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=9815009 B.B. King's MySpace page]
*[http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3925 The thread that got his ass banned]
[[Category:Forum Members]][[Category:Forum History]]

The 6 New Edits Rule

2009-09-09T01:13:20Z

SoldierHawk:

[[The 6 New Edits Rule]] is a super awesome procedure that all Sydapedia admins and sysops must follow after deleting one or more pages and/or blocking one or more users. After all the deletions and blocks are have been carried out, the admin or sysop must make 6 new edits to existing pages. This is done because the SydLexia.com News Blog displays the last 6 edits to the Sydapedia wiki in its sidebar. Syd does not want deletes and blocks displayed in the sidebar, hence the rule.

Great SydLexian Forum War

2009-09-09T01:12:58Z

SoldierHawk:

In spring of 2007, it was a time of change. A time of unrest. A time where everyone was acting like complete fucking douchebags. This was a period on the SydLexia.com forums where everyone was either pissed off or pissing people off, and sometimes both simultaneously. This went on for a few weeks, until Syd [[laideth the smacketh down]] upon the forum. Casualties of the war include [[Tishwitch]] (who surfaces during the full moon of the winter solstice when the blood of a young virgin has been spilled on the seal of Scu'gorith) and <s>[[Sock]]</s> (he's back now).

[[Category:Forum History]]

Forumer Gallery

2009-09-04T06:37:29Z

SoldierHawk: /* SoldierHawk */

A picture gallery of [[:Category:Forum Members|SydLexia.com forum members]].
== [[Aika]] ==
<gallery>
Image:Aika_post.jpg
Image:Aika_1.jpg
Image:Aika_2.jpg
Image:Aika003.jpg
Image:Aika004.jpg
Image:F02-aika.jpg
Image:F03-aika.jpg
Image:F04-aika.jpg
Image:F05-aika.jpg
Image:F06-aika.jpg
</gallery>

== [[Andrew Man]] ==
<gallery>
Image:Andrew_Man_1.jpg
Image:Andrew_Man_2.jpg
Image:Andrew_Man_3.jpg
</gallery>

== [[anorexorcist]] ==
<gallery>
Image:Anorexorcist.jpg|(On the right.)
</gallery>

== [[Ash Burton]] ==
<gallery>
Image:Ash_1.jpg|(On the very right.)
Image:Ash_2.jpg
</gallery>

== [[Asmodeous667]] ==
<gallery>
Image:Asmodeous667.jpg
</gallery>

== [[Blackout]] ==
<gallery>
Image:Blackout.jpg
Image:F07-blackout.jpg
Image:Blackout_2.jpg
Image:Blackout_3.jpg
</gallery>

== [[Black Zarak]] ==
<gallery>
Image:BlackZarak.jpg
</gallery>

== [[Burt Reynolds]] ==
<gallery>
Image:Burt_Reynolds.jpg
Image:F08-Burt Reynolds.jpg
Image:F09-Burt Reynolds.jpg
Image:F10-Burt Reynolds.jpg
Image:F11-Burt Reynolds.jpg
Image:Burt_Reynolds_2.jpg
</gallery>

== [[Cameron]] ==
<gallery>
Image:Cam-win4.JPG
</gallery>

== [[Cattivo]] ==
<gallery>
Image:Cattivo.jpg
</gallery>

== [[Char Aznable]] ==
<gallery>
Image:CharJihad.jpg
</gallery>

== [[Chrisby]] ==
<gallery>
Image:Chrisby.jpg
</gallery>

== [[Chunx]] ==
<gallery>
Image:Chunx.jpg
</gallery>

== [[Crookshow]] ==
<gallery>
Image:Crookshow_1.jpg
Image:Crookshow_2.jpg
Image:F13-crookshow.jpg
</gallery>

== [[Douche McCallister]] ==
<gallery>
Image:Douche_McCallister.jpg
Image:Douche_Val.jpg
</gallery>

== [[Drewbocop]] ==
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== [[Enshinkarateman]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[Ermac]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[Fernin]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[FNJ]] ==
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== [[Fred]] ==
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== [[Ged1928]] ==
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== [[hacker]] ==
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== [[IceWarm]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[joshwoodz]] ==
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== [[kenthegod]] ==
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== [[King]] ==
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== [[Knyte]] ==
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== [[Kojjiro!]] ==
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== [[Kubo]] ==
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== [[Lottel]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[Lordsathien]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[LowEndLem]] ==
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== [[MOGHARR]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[Mr. Bomberman]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[mtgrnwdstar]] ==
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Image:Murdar_Machene_2.jpg|oh god... please help me
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== [[Necrosaro]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[Nekkoru]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[Nekramancer]] ==
<gallery>
Image:Parkway_me.jpg
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== [[Optimist With Doubts]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[RobotGumshoe]] ==
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== [[Ross Rifle]] ==
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== [[scamrock]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[Sephiroth]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[Slayer]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[Spanky McCracken]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[Shut up, Dorn]] ==
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== [[Sidewaydriver]] ==
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== [[SoftNum]] ==
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== [[SoldierHawk]] ==
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== [[Tebor]] ==
<gallery>
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== [[Tsunami Red]] ==
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== [[Tyop]] ==
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== [[Undeath]] ==
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== [[Valdronius]] ==
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[[Category:The Forums]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-04T06:28:15Z

SoldierHawk:

SoldierHawk

2009-09-03T08:51:33Z

SoldierHawk: /* Military service */

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only. This could change in the future due to circumstances and/or boredom.

=== Quotes ===

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

This is the short quote that SoldierHawk feels sums her up the best. It is from one of her favorite TV shows, ''Firefly.''

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

This is a classic quote from SoldierHawk's ''Twilight'' thread. It will stay in her sig as long as it continues to make her laugh, or until the thought of ''Twilight'' stops making her physically ill.

== Gender ==

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credental, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc. She plans to go into Active Duty service after commissioning.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-03T08:51:02Z

SoldierHawk: /* Employment */

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only. This could change in the future due to circumstances and/or boredom.

=== Quotes ===

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

This is the short quote that SoldierHawk feels sums her up the best. It is from one of her favorite TV shows, ''Firefly.''

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

This is a classic quote from SoldierHawk's ''Twilight'' thread. It will stay in her sig as long as it continues to make her laugh, or until the thought of ''Twilight'' stops making her physically ill.

== Gender ==

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credental, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-03T08:50:10Z

SoldierHawk: /* Employment */

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only. This could change in the future due to circumstances and/or boredom.

=== Quotes ===

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

This is the short quote that SoldierHawk feels sums her up the best. It is from one of her favorite TV shows, ''Firefly.''

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

This is a classic quote from SoldierHawk's ''Twilight'' thread. It will stay in her sig as long as it continues to make her laugh, or until the thought of ''Twilight'' stops making her physically ill.

== Gender ==

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego. Her goal is to become a full time high school teacher.

Prior to this, she was employed at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credental, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-03T08:49:43Z

SoldierHawk: /* Working life */

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only. This could change in the future due to circumstances and/or boredom.

=== Quotes ===

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

This is the short quote that SoldierHawk feels sums her up the best. It is from one of her favorite TV shows, ''Firefly.''

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

This is a classic quote from SoldierHawk's ''Twilight'' thread. It will stay in her sig as long as it continues to make her laugh, or until the thought of ''Twilight'' stops making her physically ill.

== Gender ==

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Employment ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego.

Prior to this, she was employed at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credental, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-03T08:48:00Z

SoldierHawk: /* Nerd Cred and other interests */

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only. This could change in the future due to circumstances and/or boredom.

=== Quotes ===

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

This is the short quote that SoldierHawk feels sums her up the best. It is from one of her favorite TV shows, ''Firefly.''

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

This is a classic quote from SoldierHawk's ''Twilight'' thread. It will stay in her sig as long as it continues to make her laugh, or until the thought of ''Twilight'' stops making her physically ill.

== Gender ==

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Working life ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego.

Prior to this, she was employed at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credental, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

SoldierHawk's taste in music is eclectic to say the least. Her favorite band is easily Iron Maiden, followed closely by Manowar and Metallica. However, she also loves the 70s group America, and has a deep and abiding love for all country music as well.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-03T08:46:22Z

SoldierHawk: /* Nerd Cred and other interests */

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only. This could change in the future due to circumstances and/or boredom.

=== Quotes ===

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

This is the short quote that SoldierHawk feels sums her up the best. It is from one of her favorite TV shows, ''Firefly.''

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

This is a classic quote from SoldierHawk's ''Twilight'' thread. It will stay in her sig as long as it continues to make her laugh, or until the thought of ''Twilight'' stops making her physically ill.

== Gender ==

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Working life ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego.

Prior to this, she was employed at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credental, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman (NES), and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-03T08:45:30Z

SoldierHawk: /* Nerd Cred and other interests */

[[Image:2-1024-3.jpg]]

== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
[[Image:FlagHawk.png]]

SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

[[Image:Member81643.jpg]]
[[Image:Member81645.jpg]]

SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only. This could change in the future due to circumstances and/or boredom.

=== Quotes ===

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

This is the short quote that SoldierHawk feels sums her up the best. It is from one of her favorite TV shows, ''Firefly.''

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

This is a classic quote from SoldierHawk's ''Twilight'' thread. It will stay in her sig as long as it continues to make her laugh, or until the thought of ''Twilight'' stops making her physically ill.

== Gender ==

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Working life ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego.

Prior to this, she was employed at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credental, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

[[Image:N730981536 1398345 2323-1.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

[[Image:Thudercatsymbol.jpg]]

SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Nickelodeon's ''Snick,'' Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman, and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

[[Category:Forum Members]]

Erin Esurance

2009-09-03T08:29:20Z

SoldierHawk: /* FWSE appearances */

[[Image:Erinesurance.png|thumb|Erin Esurance|200px]]
[[Erin Esurance]] is a television cartoon character who encourages viewers to purchase their insurance coverage from the company Esurance, Inc. Erin co-hosted the second season of [[Who Wants To Be A Superhero?]] even though she's a fictional cartoon advertising mascot who isn't a superhero herself.

== Fun With Search Engines ==

Erin became a recurring joke on [[Fun With Search Engines]] after queries for Erin Esurance hentai kept showing up in the site logs of keywords that brought people to [[SydLexia.com]]. The first occurrence of Erin was on November 29, 2006. The joke has since spread to the [[SydLexia.com Forums]] where she is occasionally referenced by members. Also, when "Sydapedia" is typed into Google, this article is the second result, after the main page itself.

== FWSE appearances ==

These are Erin's appearances in [[FWSE]] so far, together with [[Syd]]'s responses:

* 11/29/2006: '''erin esurance sex''' - In case you’re unaware, Erin Esurance is a character from a series of commercials for Esurance, an online auto insurance company. This means the internet has hit two new all-time lows. First, people are searching for nude pics of a cartoon character from a CAR INSURANCE commercial. Secondly, [http://esurance.ytmnd.com/ there are actually some out there].
* 07/05/2007: '''erin esurance nude''' - And we’re already off to a great start…
* 08/01/2007: '''erin esurance hentai''' - Fuck this, I’m outta here.
* 09/16/2007: '''naked erin esurance altered beast''' - This search was probably planted by one of my forum members, but I couldn’t resist including it anyway. Despite my longstanding anti-hentai stance, I would definitely play a game where you’re commanded to RISE FROM THE GRAVE AND FUCK ERIN ESURANCE.
* 09/16/2007: '''esurance girl gets fucked''' - In Soviet Russia, Esurance fucks YOU! Seriously, you ever seen their rates?
* 12/20/2007: '''erin esurance sex''' - Die, motherfucker.
* 12/29/2007: '''erin esurance porn''' - I’ve decided to open with Erin Esurance this week. You know she’s coming, so I figure I might as well get her out of the way first. On a side note, I’m currently the #1 Google result for Erin Esurance porn.
* 01/12/2008: '''erin esurance fucking''' - The only “fucking” you’re going to see on this site is when I rip your fucking head off! No more goddam Erin Esurance!
* 02/28/2008: '''erin esurance hentai sex''' - The streak continues!
* 06/12/2008: '''erin esurance getting fucked''' - In Soviet Russia, Esurance fucks YOU! No wait, that’s what happens in America.
* 06/20/2008: '''erin esurance naked''' - In the words of Darth Vader, “NOOOOOOOOOO!”
* 08/02/2008: '''i want to fuck erin esurance so bad''' – Get a fucking life.
* 08/02/2008: ''' erin esurance nude''' – Yes, I really do get enough Erin Esurance searches that I need to bring her up twice in the same FWSE.
* 08/27/2008: '''erin esurance nude''' – Big surprise.
* 09/14/2008: '''erin esurance naked sex fucking''' – Well, at least it’s not another donkey show search.
* 12/05/2008: '''erin esurance nude hentai fucking''' – You knew it was coming.
* 01/05/2009: '''erin esurance hentai''' – Always save the best for last!
* 02/26/09: ''' erin esurance hardcore sex''' – That’s my cue to leave.
* 03/19/2009: '''erin esurance fucked really really hard''' – And that’s a wrap.
* 04/07/2009: '''erin esurance nude live hentai fucking sex''' – Screw you guys, I’m going home.
* 05/08/2009: '''esurance girl nude''' – Gee, didn’t see THAT coming…
* 06/01/2009: '''erin esurance sexy pics''' – Don’t worry, she’ll do an FHM cover eventually.
* 07/02/2009: '''erin esurance super naked fucking''' – How exactly does one become “super naked”? Fuck it, I’m outta here.

== See also ==
* [[Nancy Everhard]]

== External Links ==
* [http://www.sydlexia.com/news/?p=260 First occurrence in FWSE #89]
* [http://rule34.paheal.net/post/list/erin_esurance/1 Rule 34 on Erin Esurance] (NSFW)

[[Category:SydLexia.com]]
[[Category:Forum Jokes]]
[[Category:Television Character]]

Erin Esurance

2009-09-03T08:29:02Z

SoldierHawk: /* FWSE appearances */

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[[Erin Esurance]] is a television cartoon character who encourages viewers to purchase their insurance coverage from the company Esurance, Inc. Erin co-hosted the second season of [[Who Wants To Be A Superhero?]] even though she's a fictional cartoon advertising mascot who isn't a superhero herself.

== Fun With Search Engines ==

Erin became a recurring joke on [[Fun With Search Engines]] after queries for Erin Esurance hentai kept showing up in the site logs of keywords that brought people to [[SydLexia.com]]. The first occurrence of Erin was on November 29, 2006. The joke has since spread to the [[SydLexia.com Forums]] where she is occasionally referenced by members. Also, when "Sydapedia" is typed into Google, this article is the second result, after the main page itself.

== FWSE appearances ==

These are some of Erin's appearances in [[FWSE]] so far, together with [[Syd]]'s responses:

* 11/29/2006: '''erin esurance sex''' - In case you’re unaware, Erin Esurance is a character from a series of commercials for Esurance, an online auto insurance company. This means the internet has hit two new all-time lows. First, people are searching for nude pics of a cartoon character from a CAR INSURANCE commercial. Secondly, [http://esurance.ytmnd.com/ there are actually some out there].
* 07/05/2007: '''erin esurance nude''' - And we’re already off to a great start…
* 08/01/2007: '''erin esurance hentai''' - Fuck this, I’m outta here.
* 09/16/2007: '''naked erin esurance altered beast''' - This search was probably planted by one of my forum members, but I couldn’t resist including it anyway. Despite my longstanding anti-hentai stance, I would definitely play a game where you’re commanded to RISE FROM THE GRAVE AND FUCK ERIN ESURANCE.
* 09/16/2007: '''esurance girl gets fucked''' - In Soviet Russia, Esurance fucks YOU! Seriously, you ever seen their rates?
* 12/20/2007: '''erin esurance sex''' - Die, motherfucker.
* 12/29/2007: '''erin esurance porn''' - I’ve decided to open with Erin Esurance this week. You know she’s coming, so I figure I might as well get her out of the way first. On a side note, I’m currently the #1 Google result for Erin Esurance porn.
* 01/12/2008: '''erin esurance fucking''' - The only “fucking” you’re going to see on this site is when I rip your fucking head off! No more goddam Erin Esurance!
* 02/28/2008: '''erin esurance hentai sex''' - The streak continues!
* 06/12/2008: '''erin esurance getting fucked''' - In Soviet Russia, Esurance fucks YOU! No wait, that’s what happens in America.
* 06/20/2008: '''erin esurance naked''' - In the words of Darth Vader, “NOOOOOOOOOO!”
* 08/02/2008: '''i want to fuck erin esurance so bad''' – Get a fucking life.
* 08/02/2008: ''' erin esurance nude''' – Yes, I really do get enough Erin Esurance searches that I need to bring her up twice in the same FWSE.
* 08/27/2008: '''erin esurance nude''' – Big surprise.
* 09/14/2008: '''erin esurance naked sex fucking''' – Well, at least it’s not another donkey show search.
* 12/05/2008: '''erin esurance nude hentai fucking''' – You knew it was coming.
* 01/05/2009: '''erin esurance hentai''' – Always save the best for last!
* 02/26/09: ''' erin esurance hardcore sex''' – That’s my cue to leave.
* 03/19/2009: '''erin esurance fucked really really hard''' – And that’s a wrap.
* 04/07/2009: '''erin esurance nude live hentai fucking sex''' – Screw you guys, I’m going home.
* 05/08/2009: '''esurance girl nude''' – Gee, didn’t see THAT coming…
* 06/01/2009: '''erin esurance sexy pics''' – Don’t worry, she’ll do an FHM cover eventually.
* 07/02/2009: '''erin esurance super naked fucking''' – How exactly does one become “super naked”? Fuck it, I’m outta here.

== See also ==
* [[Nancy Everhard]]

== External Links ==
* [http://www.sydlexia.com/news/?p=260 First occurrence in FWSE #89]
* [http://rule34.paheal.net/post/list/erin_esurance/1 Rule 34 on Erin Esurance] (NSFW)

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[[Category:Television Character]]

SoldierHawk

2009-09-03T08:08:21Z

SoldierHawk: /* Websites */

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== Forum identifiers ==

=== Name ===

SoldierHawk's username is her preferred internet handle, and is used several other places besides sydlexia.com. She invented it by combing the name of one of her occupations (Soldier) with her personal animal avatar (or more colloquially, "spirit animal"), the red tail hawk.

=== Avatar ===
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SoliderHawk's avatar is, once again, a fusion of soldier and animal. The US flag represents her military service and the animal that represents her best. The hawk photo was taken by SoldierHawk herself while living in Alaska. The flag was added by Valdronius when SoldierHawk challenged forum members to create her an avatar incorporating her hawk picture.

=== Signature ===

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SoliderHawk's signature comes from www.militarysignatures.com. She has two versions, combat (depicting the camouflage Army Service Uniform and Kevlar helmet), and a "dress" version based on the Army Dress Blues uniform. Currently she uses the combat version as a default and uses the dress version on special occasions only. This could change in the future due to circumstances and/or boredom.

=== Quotes ===

'''“You grow up when you decide to do right, and not what's right for you, but what's right for everyone, even if it hurts." -Malcolm Reynolds'''

This is the short quote that SoldierHawk feels sums her up the best. It is from one of her favorite TV shows, ''Firefly.''

'''"The only sparkling vampires I want to see are the ones I pump full of magnesium rounds." -lordsathien'''

This is a classic quote from SoldierHawk's ''Twilight'' thread. It will stay in her sig as long as it continues to make her laugh, or until the thought of ''Twilight'' stops making her physically ill.

== Gender ==

To clear up any confusion, SoldierHawk is indeed a female, and it is therefore customary to use feminine pronouns such as "she" and "her" when referring to her. She realizes that this violates a long-held belief among Sydlexia members that there are no women on the internet, and she is hopeful that the boob jokes will stop within the next year or two as she continues to observe them in their natural habitat and gain their trust.

== Early Life ==

SoldierHawk was born in Fort Hood, Texas on February 24, 1984. Her father was in the Marines and Army, and her mother was a school teacher. Her family moved to Southern California when she was 7, and that is where she lived for most of her life except for living a year abroad in the Netherlands in second grade (where she attended a Dutch school.) She went away to college in Alaska, loved it, and hopes to god she can move back there once her school obligations are finished in San Diego.

== Working life ==

SoldierHawk is currently employed as an aide/student teacher/grader/classroom bitch in various high schools across San Diego.

Prior to this, she was employed at the Old Globe Theatre San Diego off and on for five years, where she attained the near-godly rank of Assistant Box Office Manager.

While in college as an undergrad, she worked in the university library archives, preserving old books and papers, and also worked with archival films. She spent many early mornings and late nights editing, cutting and splicing old 8mm and 16mm films about the history of Alaska. She also worked in the Writing Center, helping students of all levels and backgrounds write and organize their assignments.

In high school she was also a tutor, and held down a job at Target for nearly a year. If she hadn't wanted to go to college before that job, Target would have terrified her into it.

== Education ==

CA Teaching credental, San Diego State University (in progress)

BA in English (minor in anthropology) from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks

High School Diploma, Valhalla High School, San Diego.

== Military service ==

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SoldierHawk is currently a member of the California Army National Guard. Her unit is the HHC 79th BSTB out of Kearny Mesa. She the platoon leader of 5th platoon, the Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) quick response/scout team. She is not currently eligible to be deployed overseas as she is also an ROTC Cadet, Aztec Battalion, San Diego State University. She will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December of 2011 and is currently being told she will probably be deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter unless things change drastically between now and then.

SoldierHawk is eligible for stateside deployment with the National Guard to help with disaster relief during fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots etc.

== Fool Suffering ==

SoldierHawk does not take kindly to intentional fools such as M3gaMan and Hacker. A demonstration of what happens when one tries to cross her path can be seen here: [[M3GA MAN vs. SoldierHawk]]

== Nerd Cred and other interests ==

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SoldierHawk is a child of the 80s. Her favorite show as a child was the Thundercats. She used to have, quite literally, ever single Thundercats toy in existence. These were sadly given away by her mother when SoldierHawk went away to college. In addition to TC, SoldierHawk has very fond memories of watching Silverhawks, Transformers, The A-Team, Mr. Wizard, Quantum Leap, Reading Rainbow and Square One TV.

SoldierHawk's first gaming system was the original NES, with the triple game cart--SMB, Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet. Many, many hours were spent pounding on the Power Pad with her hands trying to beat Cheetah in the final race.

Her current preferred gaming platforms are PC and PS2. Her favorite games include Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Kirby's Dreamland, Batman, and Mass Effect. Her most anticipated game of next year is Mass Effect 2.

The geekiest item of clothing she owns is a tie between her Thundercats logo t-shirt, and her 8-Bit Theatre t-shirt.

Her favorite movies are the Peter Jackson LOtR series, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Sunshine and Equilibrium.

Besides gaming and being a nerd, her hobbies include reading (anything and everything--she has a special affinity for Shakespeare, Stephen King and Orson Scott Card), writing (she is currently working on a novel, and is trying to get several short stories published) and amateur astronomy. She also enjoys hiking, camping, hunting and other outdoor activities.

== Websites ==

SoldierHawk does not currently have a domain or website of her own (she's working on it), but she does maintain a pretty damn good blog. She also has a YouTube account where she uploads gameplay, walkthroughs, and Lets Plays.

'''http://soldierhawk.wordpress.com'''

'''http://www.youtube.com/user/SoldierHawke'''

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