So, here it is, the obligatory "everything you ever wanted to know about me" post. Or actually, it's the "I think therefore I blog" post, which really, if we are going to get technical, should in this case be the "I watch and think therefore I blog" post. But that's not really accurate either. No, in point of fact, this is the "where did we come from; why are we here; where are we going?" post...no, wait, that's something from someone else's blog entirely, someone philosophical. So what is this, really? Clearly, I have no answers for you, only questions, no? Let's just get down to it, shall we?
Who am I?
Well, it depends on the day, as you'll see, but today these are the descriptors that jump to mind right now: I am an English teacher, currently at a venerable liberal arts college suffering from growing pains and crises of definition (the college, not me...except perhaps for the crises of definition), though I have also taught at community colleges and state universities. I am a TV fan, in the most fun and devoted sense of that word. You'll see more on this (oh so much more) in the posts to come, promise. I am a card-carrying Mormon--really; I actually have a card. (And no, I am the only wife.) Or, more technically and accurately, I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS for short), for which organization I served a mission in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala (which for some makes me pretty devout). I am a walking health anomaly. For example (just briefly; there's more but it sounds lame written out), during college I was diagnosed with complex migraine syndrome; I returned from said mission with amoebas and parasites; and I survived a stroke, a scary TIA, a few years ago. I am a centrist Democrat, though my moderate Republican husband would label me a lot more liberal than I think I am. I am a feminist, in the most basic sense of the word, though I resist any more specific label than that. I am a grad school drop-out. I took the Masters and ran, very, very slowly, away from the PhD. (The trip took me several years, and certain members of my family--I am also the daughter of academics--think I am still on the road).
Why blog?
See my references to my devilish friends. But seriously, it seemed like it was time for me to join the blog world and step into the 21st century with the rest of my age cohort. I have a little used myspace page but the clientèle there seemed a little too, um, tweener? So I have joined this, a seemingly more reputable venue.
I am an odd English major: I have never had any desire to write the great American novel or even to write the somewhat passable gimmick haiku. Actually, I don't really like writing in any kind of structured way. Give me a student, and I can teach him or her to write better. Give a piece of writing, and I can edit and critique it to within and inch of its life. Give me a blank page, and I will turn on the television. BUT, and here is the big but, I do like emailing and blogging strikes me as very similar, if more diffuse.
Why television?
Because I watch enough of it I should do something productive with all my thoughts. Who knows, I may strike gold! Or, most likely, not. So here is a way to marry some of my interests and have a few laughs doing so. And I really do need some focus, which the box of death will provide for me.
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By the way, I acknowledge the coolness of those little comic-booky things they have posted on NBC, though I didn't want to read them to thoroughly, as to not spoil the surprise for later.
A potentially cool thing to blog about might be this phenomenon of externalities that seems to be invading tv, such as these comic book thingies, or the myth-making websites that go along with Lost. It's apparently no longer enough just to watch the show...
kind of like it's no longer enough just to communicate to your friends, you have to blog and email and send digital pics and hyperlinks and all that...it appears that "externalities" are the new, umm, something.
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