at that point in time , there were three things in life that i knew for certain : ( 1 ) i was a girl who 'd never met a site she could n't hack or a code she could n't break , ( 2 ) i had a roundhouse that could put a grown man in the hospital , and ( 3 ) i would without question chop off my own hands before i 'd come within five feet of a pom-pom .