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Nicole

Work hard, give harder....

About Me

Stirring the Pot, Questioning Authority, Making a Difference, Standing Up, Dreaming, Achieving, and Creating. This about sums me up.Welcome to my World.Peace~

My Interests

I LOVE: fishing, camping, riding my bike, Bluegrass music, knitting, gardening, jewelry/metalsmith design, and reading magazines and books in the bathtub! I love animals, I'd be a vet if I could do it all over. I am obsessed with NCAA basketball and I BLEED DUKE BLUE!RESEARCH INTERESTS: hermeneutical phenomenology, social art activism, multiculturalism, visual culture, feminism, domesticated crafts

I'd like to meet:

anyone chill that gets it...

Music:

I will listen to anything anyone is expressing from inside. It is an expression of the soul.

Movies:

Thomas Crowne Affair, Goonies, You've Got Mail, and any Bourne movie

Television:

ACC basketball, seinfeld or golden girls

Books:

Anything I dont have to pay for or teaches me a new skill. I will read anything I can get my hands on. I am always reading something...

Heroes:

any woman that can wear panty hose in August and the US Military

My Blog

September welcomes the Rhamadan Moon.

For those of you who do not fully understand the Muslim religion, I thought I would share. I had a few questions after my last bulletin posting.The 9th month in the Islamic Calendar is September, whic...
Posted by Nicole on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:30:00 PST

Life is Cyclical: 30 vs 15

As I taught my drawing class today (as a professor), I recalled the yellow Strathmore sketchbook I carried around for at least a semester, consolidating contour line drawings of my dorm room, sorority...
Posted by Nicole on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:45:00 PST

The world is your oyster!

Well, we all have them...those self-realization moments.  Its like looking back to when you were 16 and wondering what the hell you were thinking dating that person?  Well, we were in love.&...
Posted by Nicole on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:22:00 PST

Check out this event: Headliner Artist Competition Series

Hosted By: Annalyse McCoy When: Friday Apr 25, 2008 at 9:00 PMWhere: Don't Tell Mama's46th & 8th, ManhattanNew York, New York|33 11105United StatesDescription:Annalyse McCoy Click Here To View EventT...
Posted by Nicole on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:00:00 PST

Giving Thanks

One of the best Thanksgivings I ever had was my first year living in Manhattan.  I had no money, couldnt fly home, and still, what was the point? I was coming home at Christmas.  I also had ...
Posted by Nicole on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:55:00 PST

Finding Home

Well, for those of you who do not know yet, I have decided to leave the PhD program at The University of Georgia.  I have been talking about passion my entire life and igniting the fire found wit...
Posted by Nicole on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:00:00 PST

Taking a Nap

This week has presented some interesting questions that I have been thinking about long after class has ended.  How do we get our voices heard?  When has art activism gone too far?  How...
Posted by Nicole on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:08:00 PST

IN MY DREAMS....

I visit my dreams nightly and teach you to fly.  We visit the garden, the moon, and the deli where we have a cup of tea, and go about our day.  We raise starfish in the bay, the pencil kind ...
Posted by Nicole on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:51:00 PST

This new year...

This year do something for someone else that is unexpected.  Buy the guy's lunch in the beat up truck filled with kids behind you at a fast food joint, cut your neighbor's grass, pick up som...
Posted by Nicole on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:43:00 PST

We may not agree but...

After watching the news today, I realize that we have a very split nation.  We must not focus on the differences in each other, but the similarities.  Be thankful we live in a country where ...
Posted by Nicole on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:31:00 PST