I'm originally from a small town in Northeastern Oklahoma, Locust Grove, but I travelled all the way to Shawnee to go to college. Oklahoma Baptist University was/is a small, conservative Christian Liberal Arts University. It is not a bible college, not yet anyway. I didn't realize at the time, but it was a good place to get my feet wet academically. While it was a safe enivorment to start-out in, I think it was all of the University's strictures that caused me to become so liberal. Soon, I'll be heading to a large, state school in Louisiana to do graduate work in Folklore Studies. I get to study Literature in all of its many forms: Poetry, Short Stories, Novels, Epics, Mythological and Folktales. It is going to be so different, but I cannot wait for my all of my new academic and social exploits to begin. This weblog is where I will chronicle those and my many other adventures. I'm leaving Oklahoma in mid-August, so if we need to hang out -- get a hold of me!! Later all!