Jessica Rhee, Graduate Student Alias: CJ (Cool or Crazy Jess, depending on who you’re talking to), or Niv. Position: Graduate Writing Consultant Major: Master’s candidate for Clinical Psychology, Practitioner Track Contact Info: jyrhee@loyola.edu
What She’s Reading:
Learn to Speak Portuguese
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Book of Bunny Suicides: Little Fluffy Rabbits Who Just Don't Want To Live Any More by Andy Riley
Favorite Line:
Am I an automaton to you? A machine without feelings? That can bear to have its last morsel of bread snatched from its lips, and its last drop of living water dashed from its cup? Do you think because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, that I am soulless and heartless? I have as much soul as you, and full as much heart. And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me as it is for me to leave you now.
-Approximate quote from memory (you’d better believe I tried to memorize this rousing speech) from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
Writing Center Work is like: walking alone along a country road in meditative silence (silence save for the whisper of wind around and muted crunch of pebbles beneath), waiting . . .and waiting . . .just waiting for someone to join alongside from time to time, to walk, to ponder, to speak, perhaps to laugh (or just smile quietly) and then wander off until the next someone joins in this lovely journey.
On Punctuation: You have to learn the rules before you can play with them.
My personal favorites are the em dashes that interrupt a sentence with a child’s impulsiveness, without which I could not give voice to the free-floating twinkles of thought that spark into impatient brightness at the most unexpected moments, demanding to be expressed right here, right now (please and thank you).
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