Mary McMyne
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Female
31 years old
Lafayette, Louisiana
United States
Last Login: 12/14/2009
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Mary McMyne's Interests
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| General | Books, biology, cats, cosmology, comparative religion, counterculture (esp. 60s/Vietnam War era), crickets, Elizabethan England, epic poetry, feminisms, film, Gewurtztraminer, history, humanism, imaginary people and places, innovative fiction, intuition, laughing at inappropriate moments, liberal politics, live music (especially post-rock, jazz, and blues), marionettes, mysticism, myths, Native American religion and culture, New Orleans, nonsense, painting, pesco-vegetarian cooking, pottery, prehistory, puppets, RPGs, semiotics, Shakespeare, signs and symbols, stars, subversive literary and mythical retellings, teaching, travel, trees, wine, and writing. | | Music | Lately? Caribou, Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts, Bob Dylan... Always? Brian Eno, Ravi Shankar, psychedelic Beatles (esp. Revolver), the Stones, blues, early Pink Floyd (esp. Saucerful of Secrets), Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Animal Collective, David Byrne, Loreena McKennitt, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sha'aban Yahya, Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Ray Lynch, David Lanz, Eric Satie, Chopin, Stravinsky, Charles Mingus, early and instrumental Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, and Television. | | Movies | top 10
Adaptation, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harold and Maude, I [heart] Huckabees, Metropolis, Rashomon, The Science of Sleep, Waking Life
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Across the Universe, Akira, Big Fish, Broken Flowers, The Brothers Grimm, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (dir. Tim Burton), Dracula (dir. Tod Browning), Galaxyquest, Grizzly Man, High Art, The Hours, The House of Flying Daggers, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, Labyrinth, The Last Temptation of Christ, Lost in Translation, Mirror Mask, Pan's Labyrinth, Paprika, Pumpkin, The Saddest Music in the World, The Seventh Seal, Stardust, Star Wars, Sweeney Todd, V for Vendetta, Wild Strawberries, Zoolander... | | Television | We haven't had cable in years, but we go over to friends' houses for debate, election, and hurricane coverage, and we watch a lot of series via Netflix or purchased DVDs. Some of my favorites have been: Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Firefly, Twin Peaks, Carnivale, Stargate, Doctor Who (the original), Homicide, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. My latest guilty pleasure is Battlestar Galactica. Oh and I never turn down an opportunity to watch The Daily Show! (Saw it live when we were living up north.) | | Books | Anything by: Paula Gunn Allen, Donald Barthelme, Richard Brautigan, Kevin Brockmeier, Joseph Campbell, Raymond Carver, e. e. cummings, Michael Cunningham, Philip K. Dick, Albert Einstein, Riane Eisler (the first half of the Chalice and the Blade), William Faulkner, Seamus Haney, Ernest Hemingway, Anselm Hollo, Homer, Janette Turner Hospital, Galway Kinnell, Thomas Kinsella (tr. Tain bo Cuailgne), Milan Kundera, Thomas Malory, Herman Melville, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabokov, Anais Nin, Alice Notley, Tim O'Brien, Shakespeare, Carole Shields, Leslie Mormon Silko, Josef Skvorecky, Wallace Stegner, Hunter S. Thompson, Chuck Wachtel, Tennessee Williams, Jeanette Winterson, and Virginia Woolf. Anything by my friends (check out The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue and Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story by Carolyn Turgeon!) | | Heroes | My late mother and father. |
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Mary McMyne's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Aries | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Writer, instructor |
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Mary McMyne's Companies
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Moran Printing Company
Baton Rouge, Louisiana US
Nights Proofreader
Pre-Production
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1999-2000
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East Baton Rouge Parish School Board
Baton Rouge, Louisiana US
English Teacher
Central High School
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2000-2001
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LSU
Baton Rouge, Louisiana US
Assistant Coordinator
Service-Learning Program
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2001-2002
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Innovative Emergency Management
Baton Rouge, Louisiana US
Technical Writer
Document & Graphic Design Services Division
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2002-2004
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NJCU
Jersey City, New Jersey US
Adjunct Professor
English Department
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2004-2006
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ASA CAP (Columbia)
New York, New York US
Instructor
College Entrance Essay Writing
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Summer 2006
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NYU
New York, New York US
Teaching Assistant
Expository Writing
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2005-2007
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NYU
New York, New York US
Adjunct Instructor
Creative Writing Program
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Summer 2007
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SLCC
Lafayette, LA US
Instructor of Composition and Literature
English Department
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Fall 2007 - present
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