I'm fascinated with rhetoric, trying to understand it, trying to apply its theories, and trying to teach it. I consider higher education to be my ultimate goal and reaching for it to be the one thing I am really good at. :)To me, Lil Wayne is the greatest hip-hop rhetorician alive, and I am constantly analyzing and reanalyzing his lyrics.
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I think waaaayyyy too much. I don't understand myself...yet. I try to balance my love for higher education with my varying liberal/progressive social beliefs, causes, and actions. I'm a 30 year old college instructor who has 16 tattoos, dresses more like a student than a teacher, and hopes that my "young at heart" and different appearance and approach will always allow a deep connection with anyone who studies with me.I love my soon-to-be husband (John Gernenz--getting married on July 12, 2009!!!!!), my best friends (Amy Young, Kory Briggs, Misty Yarbrough, and Amanda Pinkston), and all my other homies (ya'll know who you are!!!). I love my dogs, both here with me and in heaven with Jesus waiting for me to get there. I've been a vegetarian since September 25, 1996, and I'm proud of it! I believe animals have so many rights that are denied them, and if I achieve nothing else in this life I hope I can do something significant in the name of all the animals who bless this earth with their lives. I love ALL animals--furry, cute, slimy, prickly--I don't care! I think there should be no thing as BSL--if you don't know what that is, look it up and educate yourself and watch the above video on pit bulls. I love music, tattoos, piercings, writing, thinking, posing, reading, MySpacing, Facebooking, & tweeting on Twitter! I suffer from/live with bipolar disorder and ADHD, which alone can make someone an interesting, yet difficult person to deal with, but combined make me either a complete sweetheart or a complete crazy person. :) But that's OK with me....Jesus made me this way so it must be for a reason. I'm ME 24/7/365....that's all I can say...