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Created on 2009-03-20 17:52:28 (#19162127), last updated 2009-05-30
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Basic Info| Name: | coffeecat709 |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 08-02 |
| Location: | San Jose, California, United States |
Bio I have been teaching English for three-and-a-half years as an adjunct at a city college in the San Francisco Bay Area. I'm sure a lot of my journals will be about my teaching experience - who knows. I used to do creative fiction writing but, for some reason, stopped when I started teaching. I'm now writing non-fiction, mainly about being an instructor in the two-year college system. I have never been paid to write, although that would be wonderful, but I have been paid to teach people how to write - a little irony here.
I love to be outdoors; I love the smell of coffee. I want to travel all over the world and, even though I have been to a number of different countries, (places in Europe, the Caribbean, Mexico, Canada, lots of national parks in the US), I wish I could travel as a lifestyle. I don't have any children right now, only because I feel like my husband and I can't afford them and still live comfortably. I'm looking forward to the time when we will be able to have them.
For now, I'm trying to get a full-time English teaching gig, and he's a flight instructor and trying to break into the airlines with no luck. I do feel grateful, however, because we both love what we do - although the pay limits some of our other priorities. I realize there is a lot of good in my life now, and ,when it changes, there are things that I'm unaware of now that I will miss. One paradox of my life is that I long for freedom (travel) but also stability (a full-time job and my own house). Another one is that I want freedom but also to be a mom. I'm not sure if I'm ready for any of the things I think I want- motherhood, a house, a full-time tenure track English job. Right now I live in a small apartment with my husband in the Bay Area.
Who knows- maybe I'll write about marriage, travel, food, nature, gender stereotypes, teaching. We'll see.
I love to be outdoors; I love the smell of coffee. I want to travel all over the world and, even though I have been to a number of different countries, (places in Europe, the Caribbean, Mexico, Canada, lots of national parks in the US), I wish I could travel as a lifestyle. I don't have any children right now, only because I feel like my husband and I can't afford them and still live comfortably. I'm looking forward to the time when we will be able to have them.
For now, I'm trying to get a full-time English teaching gig, and he's a flight instructor and trying to break into the airlines with no luck. I do feel grateful, however, because we both love what we do - although the pay limits some of our other priorities. I realize there is a lot of good in my life now, and ,when it changes, there are things that I'm unaware of now that I will miss. One paradox of my life is that I long for freedom (travel) but also stability (a full-time job and my own house). Another one is that I want freedom but also to be a mom. I'm not sure if I'm ready for any of the things I think I want- motherhood, a house, a full-time tenure track English job. Right now I live in a small apartment with my husband in the Bay Area.
Who knows- maybe I'll write about marriage, travel, food, nature, gender stereotypes, teaching. We'll see.
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adventure, boardgames, compliments on my cooking, connecting with people, culture, dancing, days off, desperate housewives, driving to good music, elizabeth gilbert, environmentalism, gender issues, getting a massage, going green, going to a spa, good books, good coffee, good conversation, good food, good wine, hiking, john stewart., learning something new, making progress, meeting goals, my cat, nature, random acts of kindness, reading cookbooks, reading the newspaper, relaxing in the bath, romance, sunny days, super nanny, sushi, teaching, thai food, the store anthropology, thought provoking movies, time management, toni morrison, travel, travel girl magazine, vietnamese food, world literature, writing, writing workshops, yoga
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