It's Me... (#2)

Hello, everyone! My name is Michael R. Ellis and I am an award-winning writer and photographer with an A.S. in Journalism, a B.A. in Philosophy, and a B.A. in Journalism from Indiana University Southeast (IU Southeast). In the past I have worked as a newspaper photographer and editor, and I write because I love the process.
In addition to writing about philosophical issues, I am an avid reader, I do a little bit of rock climbing, and travel the occasional forest path via mountain bike or afoot. I am currently working in the IT Communication Department and as a graduate writing consultant in the Writing Help Center (W.H.C.) at IU Southeast. I have a keen interest in foreign languages and cultures and my duties at the W.H.C. have allowed me to work with students from around the world as an English as a Second Language instructor.
I like to "hang out" in bookstores and I consider myself more of a "book person." My top ten list:

1. The Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu
2. Im Westen Nichts Neues von Erich Maria Remarque
3. and 4. The Symposium and the Apology by Plato
5., 6., and 7. Die Fröliche Wissenschaft, Die Götzen-Dämmerung, und Ecce Homo von Friedrich Nietzsche
8. As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
9. Discourse on Method By René Descartes
10. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

While I like to think of myself as "high-tech," computers and software have a way of "bursting my bubble" from time-to-time. A few of my favorite websites are:

1. http://www.geocities.com/thenietzschechannel/
2. http://www.ramones.com/
3. http://www.blogger.com/www.ala.org/
4. http://www.nytimes.com/
5. http://chronicle.com/

In addition, I prefer face-to-face meetings but it seems like I spend a good part of my days sending email messages.
Words I try to live by: "You are mistaken my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one." ~Socrates (in the Apology by Plato).
I am currently working on the MLS at IU because I aspire to be a Radical, Militant Librarian.

In the Beginning (#1)

Well, I am new to the blogging scene and I really don't know where to begin. I am really looking forward to learning more as the semester progresses, and I also look forward to getting to know all of the people in 554 that I can. ...