Hello everyone!
I decided it's finally time to rev up my blog and join my esteemed colleagues from USF: Patricia Roy, William Toms and, of course, my favorite Matt Barton. I am joining, partly to offer Patricia an ally on the Literature side (I mean that lightheartedly of course), but mostly to share my experiences, frustrations, joys, and hallucinations about rhetoric and composition.
I am in my third year of attempting my MA in Lit at USF, but I have been teaching Comp I and II with some success for all the semesters I've been here in lovely Tampa. I was priveleged to be Joe Moxley's assistant last semester, and am also priveleged to be helping in the development of the current online course. Today, I am working on developing the FYC Syllabi for traditional, face-to-face classes.
I guess I could accurately say that I am an "organic" teacher, a throwback from hippie days, what they call a "nontraditional" student. Thus, I don't espouse any particular tradition except, perhaps, a Socratic one, but I'm open to suggestion. My heart, however, is in teaching. Either that or I am poised to write the next bestseller. (Yeah right!)
One warning: I tend towards sarcasm - to the point of being obnoxious. I happen to believe that it's an art in and of itself. I will put large blinking asterisks out when I shift into sarcasm mode. Deal?
Coolness.
Peace,
Patty
Heya!
Good to hear from you, Patty. I miss USF already (but not the hellish weather). Hey, do you still update Rivendell? Have another blog? You always had some great posts.
Ciao,
Tricia, USF
Heya back!
Not only has the weather been hellish, but the a/c was out for the past two days! We're up to our knees in water here too, with the wettest summer in recent memory according to the locals.
USF is as entertaining as usual, if you've been keeping up with writingblog. I don't update Rivendell any longer, since I have been keeping to writingblog or my personal rant blog at http://kudzu.motime.com That's where my more entertaining posts go and as a fellow Yankee you might just get a giggle out of it. I apologize in advance to my latitudinally challenged readers :)
I'm looking forward to reading your stuff in this forum! Good luck with the job search!
No A/C in Tampa
I think I'd rather be in Las Vegas at midnight without a pair of sunglasses than Tampa at noon without my trusty AC blowing on me like an ice demon's trumpet. I don't see how people can make it without a good bushy mustache to keep them cool.