Ashlyn is a Type-B perfectionist, with a penchant for creativity and sudden ideas. She thrives in collaborative environments and loves to teach herself new skills. Her mind is most occupied when she’s writing, designing, and finishing the New Yorker daily crossword.
Fun Facts
When I was seven years old, I watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and I decided I would study archaeology in college. And I did!
I lived in Korea for five years and continue to take lessons with my Korean teacher that I met my second year there.
When I visited the British Museum for the first time, I cried when I saw the Parthenon Marbles.
I hiked 18 miles of Hadrian’s Wall in the U.K.
I danced ballet, tap, and jazz for 15 years.
My favorite movie list includes The Sound of Music, The Gentleman, Pride and Prejudice (the Keira Knightly version of course), The Godfather, and many more!
Reading and writing are some of my favorite pastimes. When I was in middle school, I loved the BBC Robin Hood series, and before I even knew what fanfiction was, I was writing Robin Hood fanfiction.
My favorite poem is Having a Coke with You.
by Frank O’Hara
is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne
or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona
partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian
partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt
partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches
partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary
it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles
and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint
you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them
I look
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world
except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick
which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together for the first time
and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism
just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or
at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me
and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them
when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank
or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn’t pick the rider as carefully
as the horse
it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience
which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I’m telling you about it
New England (my favorite place) on film
