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Bernadette

Raise that drinking Jolly Roger means take off yer shirts!!!!!

About Me


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I am an instructor of English at Cerritos College . I COMPLETED MY M.A. AT CSULB in The Revolutionary Period Literature in England , with a special emphasis on the poetry of John Keats . I am currently looking into different schools to get my PhD, I am planning on studying Celtic Myth .
I had hoped to go to Trinity College , Dublin , Ireland , but finances did not permit that. I looked at Claremont or the program at Pacifica as an alternative. I applied at UCS, UCLA, and UCI instead.
I am married to my best friend, Mica .
I also write poetry, fiction, and essays, and am looking into getting some works published. I am an avid reader, and my reading often informs my writing. I feed on Tolkien in addition to Keats, Blake , Coleridge , Wordsworth , and Mary Shelley . Charlotte and Emily Bronte have also inspired my writing. Current books in progress: An interpretation of Emily Bronte's Bertha. Somehow Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea made me sad. I see Bertha as a strong, passionate, and wild woman. I am also working on a book I am titling Shades of Gray, which is a societal questioning book. It questions the reader, "What is gay?" "What is straight?" "What is an Addict?" "What is sober?" "What is beauty?" "What is truth?" "What is sex?" "What is love?" "What is friendship?" "What is family?" "What is race?" It is an eposodic book (Sorry Aristotle) that follows its heroine back and forth in time and watches her growth. The reader must decide for themselves the answer to these questions. I also have a child's book closely following the model of Tolkien and Lewis, and a dragon book in the fashion of Anne McCaffery , and a vampire book in the fashion of Anne Rice .
I grew up gothic, and hence still find myself attracted to black lace and purple velvet and white ruffled blouses and black leather boots.
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My Interests

Other than the afore mentioned reading and writing, I love playing with my kitties and my puppy . I would not have been able to do it without the help of Drew. RIP man!
Since I cannot have Drew, I get to give all of my lovin' to my husband .

I love watching movies . My education has destroyed my brain.... so I cannot EVER watch a movie without thinking too much about it.

I also love dancing. From 16-23 I was ALWAYS at Mike and Bruce's clubs: Helter Skelter, DDT, Stigmata, Scream, Zombie Zoo, Perversion, etc. I was also fond of Jets in Long Beach and Kontrol Faktory .

I love to listen to music.

I collect Lord of the Rings items, and have a coin collection from Shire Post . I have almost all 31 books from the Tolkien Collection. I am thinking of delving back into C.S. Lewis's books. I also love walking at the Huntington .

I'd like to meet:



I would love to meet some of my heroes...

Jaye Davidson YUMMY!

VIN DIESEL

SUCH an INSPIRATION! If I could be where he is now when I get to his age! Mr Vincent could not get any film roles, so he went to work, saved money, wrote, directed, produced, and acted in a movie that caught Spielberg's eye. Spieberg wrote a part ino a movie, and look where Mr Vincent is now! Owns his own publishing company, One Race , the engine that produces his current movies. BRILLIANT! Aside from being a successful actor, Mr Vincent is also fond of quoting Albert Camus . I have not read Camus, but I am fond of his partner in crime, Jean Sartre . Sartre moved the importance of the reader to the forefront, recognizing that, without the reader, the text does not exist. If I met Mr Vincent I would BEG him to produce one of my books as a film, I have even written a part for him in it! I would also like to discuss the name, One Race, and its meening. Given his own mixed race (no race) status, I imagine One Race might celebrate the idea of all races mixing into one. At first I applauded this, until I relaized this would eliminate all variety in humanity, which eliminates originality, and finally, autonomy. One Race could also mean he caters to one race, but given his mixed race, I wonder what that is. He also owns Tigon Studios .

ORLANDO BLOOM

I need to wait and see where this man goes, but Mr Bloom first caught my eye when, after the fame of Lord of the Rings, he was brave enough to participate in a peaceful protest. He and other members of Green Peace shut down a Beverly Hills gas station by handcuffing themselves to the pump and dropping a banner which read, "End Global Warming..." He risked arrest for this. Also, I applauded his fearless speech when discussing Kingdom of Heaven. He unflinchingly spoke of the rights of homosexuals in addition to speaking about the rights of the religious. I thought this was brave as so many people constantly question his sexuality. If I met him I would love to talk about growing up in Canterbury, what the cathedral is like, which of Chaucer's pilgrims he relates to most.

EWAN McGREGGOR
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So beautiful. I want to know more about this man. I love his singing and laughing, smiling face. He could be a posterboy for Enzyte, although I am sure he does not need it. I would be totally tongue tied and have no idea what to talk about if I ever met this man.

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Music:

Dead can Dance , This Mortal Coil , Cocteau Twins , Human Drama , Xymox , Chameleons , and Enya . When I want to be SURE I am still gothic: Virgin Prunes , Sex Gang Children and Thrill Kill . When I want to laugh: Lords of Acid . When I feel like it: Cubanate , Nitzer Ebb , Front 242 , Ministry , and KMFDM . When I wanna scare people: Skinny Puppy . I am beginning to RESPECT Mr Mathers as a modern revolutionary poet, and Green Day . Smashing Pumpkins , Offspring , and of course I will ALWAYS love The Marleys ...

Movies:


Age of Innocence, Amadeus, Beloved, Black Stallion, The Crow, The Crying Game, Dangerous Liasons, Dead Poet's Society, Down With Love, Dracula, Dragon Slayer, Dungeons and Dragons, Elizabeth, Elizabethtown, Emma, Equilibrium, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, Finding Neverland, Grendel Grendel Grendel, Hannibal, Harry Potter, Hidalgo, History of Violence, Hitchhiker's Guide, Immortal Beloved, Kingdom of Heaven, Labyrinth, Last Unicorn, Legend, Legends of the Fall, Lord of the Rings, Magnolia, Man in the Iron Mask, Matrix, Meet Joe Black, Midsummer Night's Fream, Moulin Rouge, Ned Kelly, The Order, Orlando, Perfect Murder, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pitch Black, Princess Bride, Red Dragon, Reign of Fire, Star Gate, Spirited Away, Super Troupers, Star Wars, Troy, What Dreams may Come, Wilde.
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Television:

Rome and Deadwood , Real Time , Crocodile Hunter , Discovery Channel , South Park , Def Poetry Jam , and Who's Line is it Anyway? .

Books:

William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience,Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret ,Charlotte Bronte's Villette
Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Marriam ,
Dekker and Middleton's Roaring Girl ,
Gilbert and Gubar's The Madworman in the Attic ,Keats's Poems,Toni Morrison's Beloved
Anne Rice's Cry to Heaven,

Tom Robbin's Skinny Legs and All ,
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things ,
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings,
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 ,
Christine Rossetti's Goblin Market,andThe Bible.

Heroes:

Actors: Vin Diesel , Ewan McGregor , Orlando Bloom , John Rhys-Davies , Ian McKellen , Anthony Hopkins , Morgan Freeman , Mark Hamill . Actresses: Charlize Theron , Nicole Kidman , Heather Graham , Kate Blanchett . Kate Winslette, and Izabella Miko. Comedians: Margaret Cho , Lewis Black , George Carlin . Theorists: Judith Butler , John Sartre , Stephen Greenblatt , Nicholas Roe , Heiddeger (Post-Nazi) . Poets: John Keats , William Blake , William Cullen Bryant , Mos Def . Teachers: Beth Lau , Mimi Hotchkiss, John Brugaletta, Brauner. Family: My Husband for being so great. My brother for staying sober so long. My dad for realizing the American dream.

My Blog

I DO have a dream...

I do have a dream....It is my dream that eventually people will realize that not all black people are drug dealers and out to rob a liquor store or make a living rapping or dancing. I am hoping that a...
Posted by Bernadette on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:51:00 PST

friends

I know this sounds weird, but I was looking at my myspace friends the other day, and I felt like I was done. I don't mean to sound arrogant, but, well, I know this is silly, but I made a weird connect...
Posted by Bernadette on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:00:00 PST

the first day back

So today is the first day back and I am filled fill an absolutely overwhelming sense of.... nothing. It is always like this, the first day of school. I always feel like, "why am I here?" I used to thi...
Posted by Bernadette on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:36:00 PST

1 grey goose shot and three glasses of champagne later!

What a GREAT New Years Party!I had soooo much fun. I have decided I really do not like french wine or champagne, but it is all about Italian wine and the Asti my beautiful cousin gave me. Weird that I...
Posted by Bernadette on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:51:00 PST

what a bummer!

I tried this:Bernadette --[noun]:An erotic popsicle'How will you be defined in the sexual dictionary?' at QuizUniverse.comBut quickly learned that it goves a different definition everytime you go to t...
Posted by Bernadette on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:28:00 PST

bam bam bam-bam bu bam bam bam-bam Huan needs to be sedated!

So Huan had surgery yeaterday and came home today. He is a nervous pacer so he needs to be kept off of his feet as much as possible. He is making me crazy limping around on his foot in a cast! But he ...
Posted by Bernadette on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:43:00 PST

Good and bad news....

GOOD NEWS! We got an opinion from the osteo surgeon, and she says that Huan's displacia level is normal for the large breeds and that he will still be able to run and pull and jump! As a matter of fac...
Posted by Bernadette on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:33:00 PST

PhD Baby!

I just applied to USC for my PhD... We'll see how it goes!Pray for me that they will be crazy enough to take me in!I also applied at UCI and UCLA and CSULB!Kisses
Posted by Bernadette on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:41:00 PST

I am sooooo sad - my poor puppy!

So I just got back from the vet giving my dog his regular shots and having a curiosity or two looked at and it turns out he has Hip Dysplasia! I am soooo sad! He has always looked like he is walking ...
Posted by Bernadette on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:31:00 PST

Being me

How must we act to recover the authentic self we have lost by living in the world of the other? The therapy is simple: We must turn from living by the other's rules and habits and project a world of p...
Posted by Bernadette on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:30:00 PST