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About Me

In a nutshell: I move to Chico, CA about 7 years ago to work on a Master's Degree. I was born in South Carolina and raised in Memphis,TN (Home of Elvis). I am currently a college instructor and enjoy teaching classes in communication studies and communication design. I was just hired recently into a full-time tenure track position with Woodland Community College near Sacramento. Therefore, I'll be making a move later in the summer. Most of my family lives 2000 miles away from me and I tend to make my friends into an extended family. My southern draw is not as noticeable unless i've been up late, out drinking with friends, or after finishing a phone conversation with my family members in TN.I also enjoy to travel. My partner Joe and I travel often. We travel to NY atleast once a year, and have a number of international travels in the planning stages. A couple of years ago we spent a long Thanksgiving weekend in Amsterdam....What an experience! This year alone, we've already been to Vegas twice (Once for my 32nd B'day, and once to see Liza) The Liza trip has become one of my favorite stories. All I will say here is that it was MAJOR DRAMA!!!! There were people dragged out of the audience by security, and we got our money refunded.I am a very proud uncle to my one-year old neice. She's Precious; and I'm the father to a fiesty kitty who thinks he's a dog.

My Interests

Music, Theatre, Travel, Great conversations over coffee, cooking, the gym, gardening, writing, Sudoku, and my cat

I'd like to meet:

Kermit The Frog

Music:

I love a wide range of music. I'm a sucker for early alternative such as early REM, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, as well as a wide range of musical theatre sountracts. I'm pretty open to most music except country...maybe it's just me rebelling from my upbringing in the south.

Movies:

A few of my favorite movies of all times are: Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, Best of Show (basically any Christopher Guest Movie) Soap Dish, All About Eve, Girls will be Girls, Star Wars: A New Hope, Wizard of OZ

Television:

I have a few guilty pleasures when it comes to television. I am hooked on "Project Runway" "Little People Big World" "Xena: Warrior Princess" (I wrote my thesis on this show) and "Classic Degrassi Jr. High"

Books:

Most recently "Magical Thinking" by Augusten Burroughs. "Tales of the City" Series by Armistead Maupin

Heroes:

My Grandfathers, and my mother

My Blog

OPTIONS!!!

This weekend I found a townhouse I'm interested in buying....ME buying a house! I feel like an adult...plus the added extra stress. We'll see how it works out.
Posted by C.J. on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:37:00 PST

My grandpop

I've been putting off writing a new blog for a while. There are two reasons for this. First, I've been traveling and secondly, I recently lost a loved one that was very dear to me. My grandfathe...
Posted by C.J. on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:51:00 PST

List of Theatre Shows

I have an extensive background in musical theatre performance. Once I started dating Joe we started to see more professional productions and concerts. So the other day Joe and I were wondering h...
Posted by C.J. on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:18:00 PST

Happiness lyrics - My perspective

So i just posted the lyrics to the song "Happiness" from the Broadway production of Your A Good Man Charlie Brown. I just added the song to my profile and listed the lyrics in my blog if you wan...
Posted by C.J. on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:23:00 PST

Happiness lyrics

HAPPINESS CHARLIE BROWN:HAPPINESS IS FINDING A PENCIL. SNOOPY:PIZZA WITH SAUSAGE LINUS:TELLING THE TIME. SCHROEDER:HAPPINESS IS LEARNING TO WHISTLE. LINUS:TYING YOUR SHOE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME....
Posted by C.J. on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:14:00 PST

Packing Sucks!

So I'm now in the middle of packing up my house to get ready to move to my new apt in Sacramento. Joe and I are going down this weekend so I can sign my lease, get my key, and measure room space...
Posted by C.J. on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:56:00 PST

Packing Sucks. Pt. 2

In the blog I just posted I mentioned that I was drinking a beer in a glass. I need to go into more detail **Backstory** A couple of years ago I went to Amsterdam for Thanksgiving break with Joe, our ...
Posted by C.J. on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:09:00 PST

my FINAL final for Chico State (aka An Inconvenient Emotion)

An Inconvenient Emotion I have been so busy this past week with all the finals I had to give for my 5 classes at Chico State (Next week I have 3 finals for Butte) Anyways, there I was sitting, p...
Posted by C.J. on Fri, 18 May 2007 10:07:00 PST

Quick Update - I had my Interviews

Hello All, Things have been busy for me this semester. I'm teaching 8 classes (5 for CSU,Chico and 3 for Butte Community College) Also, I've been job searching. I got two interviews ...
Posted by C.J. on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:41:00 PST

GRRRRRRRRR

I'm frustrated! This weekend was my partner's b'day. We had a great weekend and everything was running according to my plans. However, yesterday afternoon I noticed that my window in...
Posted by C.J. on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:40:00 PST