As the Lai Matriarch recalls, Victoria "R.H." Lai was born in the nether regions of Minnesota during a raging hail storm, which possibly foreshadowed the tumult of the child's life to come, though more likely just left heavy denting in the Lai-Mobile. Due to living in constant sub-zero conditions, the infant girl developed a rare condition known in some scientific circles as "Superficial Unguis Mongoloid", otherwise known as "Why the fricker-fracker does an Asian have arm hair?"
Not long after her birth, the 4-member clan, consisting of Victoria's father, mother, sister, and herself, migrated to the warmer climates of suburban Philadelphia, where Victoria, then pseudonym'd "Vicky", was schooled for 12 long years in the fine art of sarcasm. During this time, she developed a fondness for writing, martial arts, the piano, and the violin. After failing to excel at any of these skills, she joined a masochistic cult whose member statement demanded fealty by way of self-deprecation.
To prove her worth, Victoria shed the happy-go-lucky persona of Vicky and chose to pursue a bachelors in chemical engineering. The decision brought her to the other side of Pennsylvania to Steel City, where she received a BS in chemical engineering, a minor in biological engineering, and a concentration in invisibility. Some years after realizing that her calling had not brought her close enough to her vision of a world ravaged by zombies, she left her job to pursue a higher degree in biomedical engineering.
When not developing biological warfare, Victoria enjoys setting up Rube Goldberg mechanisms, sewing, reading young adult fiction (that's "fiction for young adults", not "adult fiction for young ones"), and listening to a healthy dose of Incubus.
Also, it's pronounced "Live." It rhymes with "jive."
