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Instructor: Michele Domenech Office: CAS 100B Office phone: 704-922-6291 M (7:30-9, 10-1, 5-5:30 at ECC 216) Tues (1-4) Wed (9-1) Thurs (11-2) Always in cyberspace! email:domenech.michele@gaston.edu
 * The best way to reach me is via email or wiki mail (you can access wiki mail by clicking on the white envelope in the right upper corner of the wiki. I will normally respond to you that same day; however, I do try to sleep sometimes, so I promise to reply to your email within 24 hours.) You can also reach me on my cell for emergencies or urgent questions at 980-329-1933.**

So what should I tell you about myself ?? I graduated from [|Texas Woman's University] with a BA in Literature and Mass Communications. I then moved to [|Live Oak, Florida] to spend some time with my grandma. While there, I was the Sports writer and photographer for //[|The Swannee Democrat]//, and I was a full-time instructor and Supervisor of the Writing Center at [|North Florida Community College]. I then accepted a teaching assistantship at [|Virginia Commonwealth University], graduated in 2003.

At that time I intended on going right into my PhD, but I accepted a great offer to teach for a year at the [|VCU campus in Qatar] (That is in the Middle East.) I taught for VCU-Q for two years, and one year with the Academic Bridge Program (a co-ed community college type of school). VCU was the only all-girl university in Qatar until the fall 2007. Cool, huh? Then I missed my family, so I came back and have been trying to fit back into American culture ever since. Shew!

I love the beach! I was born in Hialeah, Florida and moved to Texas when I was five, but I cannot get the swish, swish of the ocean out of my head. I plan to end up living and teaching near some ocean.

My favorite movies are: //Breakfast at Tiffany's// because Audrey Hepburn is so classy; //The Princess Bride// because it is so funny; all three //Scooby-Doo// movies because I do a mean Scooby-Doo impression, and the original //Shining// or anything with Jack Nicholson because his hair scares me! I actually could name about a hundred movies that I love and why; I am a bit of a movie geek.

I have been to 20 countries in the last four years. ( links to follow). I love to travel, and once thought I would like to join the Peace Corps in order to travel and also help people. I am a bit obsessed with helping people - to a detriment at times. I just like to see joy. Do you know what I mean? Have you ever //seen// joy? (And not your mother's sister or anything like that.)

I have two cats that I rescued and brought back from Qatar. Ninja (He always jumped out from behind the furniture to attack me when he was a kitten.) and Nunchuck (Ninja's sidekick, too fat to be of much help in a crisis I fear.)

I really want a Great Dane, but that seems to be out of the question for the time being, so I may do one of my SL projects with the Great Dane rescue. You know Scooby Doo was a Great Dane!

My boyfriend's name is Ben, and he is an assistant professor and area coordinator of graphic design at Virginia Tech. He is a surfer at heart, and he can build anything. It seems he has this uncanny ability to learn new things with ease. Except languages - he has issues with languages.

My mom died 15 years ago this October, and my dad and his 4th and best wife, aside from my mother, are retired and living in Florida. My dad took an early retirement from Delta (good move I say).

My brother and his wife, Terri, and two kids, Braden and Bailey, live in Texas. They are expecting too. My brother owns a Paneera Bread and Terri teaches Honors Junior English (I think.) My brother thinks he is so tech savvy, sending me this picture from his phone, while stuck in traffic on the LBJ Freeway. He can't even remember to check his email regularly.

Isn't he adorable though?

Well, I think that is enough about me. I think you now have some idea about how I came to be so nutty. Here is a mini-video from YouTube from the movie //The Life Of Brian//. The movie is a [|parody]. Just food for thought. I encourage you all to view all things that can be read as "literature." Do not be afraid to step outside of the "academic" box.

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