My relatives call me Kiki, my friends call me Knick-Knack, my mother calls me Noodle, and my brother still calls me a poopiehead. However, I typically answer to Nicole - nice to meet you.

I'm an Art History major at UC Santa Barbara and I love to conduct research, especially on writing. It has been one of my hobbies for almost a decade now, a hobby that has given me as much trouble as it has pleasure; I believe writers are the only people who truly understand the concept of a love-hate relationship: the one they have with their writing. Other than some obsessive-compulsive twitches, a knack for jinxing myself and a nicotine habit, I maintain a rather placid existence.

I'm just your average girl . . . but, isn't that how most adventures begin?