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My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | day job: community college instructor |
| Location | SE Michigan, United States |
| Introduction | Born Nelson, Lancs. UK--Go, Pendle!,emigrated to Cleveland, OH 4/1957, OLA, St Joseph Academy, CLE, '66; Marygrove College, DTW, '70, BA; University of Tulsa, TUL, '77 MA; Purdue University, WLaf, almost ABD. Jobs: busgirl, switchboard operator, receptionist, Kelly girl, bank teller, senior/head teller, graduate teaching fellow, government documents clerk, technical writer/editor, graduate teaching assistant, part-time instructor, assistant professor, full-time English instructor, author, editor, publisher, in more or less chron. order. |
| Interests | neurodiversity! (See more at bottom of blog) Currently raptly attentive to Pacific sunfish (Mola Mola--or is it just one Mola?); the mating of slugs; more or less remote but populated islands (Tristan, etc.) Since I'm always a bit surprised to see a human image when I look in the mirror, it's an odd sensation to specify my (so-called) self. |
| Favorite Movies | Top 3 = Fanny & Alexander, Amarcord, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. See second tier @ FaceBook. |
| Favorite Music | Brian Wilson's SMILE, Beatles & other British Wave, Elly Stone (album & vocalist--hard to find), The Detroit Folk Scene (album, hard to find) |
| Favorite Books | James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man; Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas (especially "Fern Hill" which must be read @ my funeral!); Anthony Burgess, The Devil of a State, Enderby; Women from Another Planet? (shameless plug) |
Describe the sound of a moist waffle falling onto a hot griddle.
Splat sounds so cliche, but in fact a waffle iron would prob'ly feature multiple splats whenever batter reaches waffle iron crevice: splat...splatsplatsplat..splat...splat...splatsplatsplatsplatsplatsplat...and so forth.