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Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation English doctoral student
Location Texas, United States
Introduction Married, two kids. Worked in the defense industry for 20 years before taking a different path. I'll be starting my dissertation on the rhetoric of war in a few months. This semester I am teaching Freshman Composition. I DON'T CARE ABOUT BLOGGERS' SPELLING, PUNCTUATION, OR ANY OTHER GRAMMAR MATTERS--I JUST WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU.
Interests good literature, social justice, SLR photography, travel
Favorite Movies The Trip to Bountiful, No Man's Land, The Fugitive, Lonesome Dove, Shall We Dance? (Japanese original), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Favorite Music Robert Earl Keen, Guy Clark, Indigo Girls, Tracy Chapman, Nancy Griffith, Darden Smith, The Cars, Bob Dylan, Warren Zevon
Favorite Books Kurt Vonnegut, Joan Didion, Walter Mosley, Cold Sassy Tree, Shane, In Pharaoh's Army