dawnatella aka votre petite julep aka miss treat's Interests
General
preserving the value inherent in honeysuckles, twirling, neologism, sitting on the back stoop, les paul, sofia mini, reading, writing, watching, listening, intellectualizing, problematizing, empowering, tai chi, occasional baking, bad haiku, post-structuralist thought, diner food, dogs and pick-up trucks, occasional self-loathing, oatmeal cream pies, black coffee, finding beautiful things that have been discarded, the farmers' market/flea market/thrift store saturday afternoon trifecta, you know--the usual
Music
yes, please.
Movies
french new wave (yeah, i know), true romance, kick and screaming, annie hall, the apartment, fight club, casablanca, lost in translation, garden state, heathers, reality bites, the big lebowski, the big sleep, adam's rib, his girl friday, metropolitan, barcelona, chinatown, most anything made in the 1940s, altman, hitchcock, cameron crowe, wes anderson, p.t. anderson, all things cary grant (and chris eigeman, apparently)
Television
buffy, wonderfalls, point pleasant, the andy griffith show, the dick van dyke show, the mary tyler moore show, really anything that follows the definite article + a person's name + the word "show" formula (i'm really not that complicated.)
Books
Henry and June; the works of Chuck Palahniuk, Ellen Gilchrist, Bret Easton Ellis, Don DeLillo, and Nick Hornby; Absalom, Absalom!; The Bell Jar; Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing; The Great Gatsby; The Day of the Locust; Is Sex Necessary?; The Catcher in the Rye; Jane Eyre; The Age of Innocence; The Portrait of a Lady; A Rhetoric of Motives; the poems of Wallace Stevens, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Dorothy Parker; and my favorite form, the essay (by rhetoricians, philosophers, feminist critics, and cultural theorists, preferably)
Heroes
You. I wish I could do that, too, that thing that you do so very well that no one ever talks about (probably because they don't exactly see it, probably because they don't exactly know how) but draws the world in around you.
North Carolina State University At Raleigh
Raleigh,North Carolina
Graduated: 2004
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: English
Minor: concentration in rhetoric and composition
