Yeah, how's that for the least-descript label ever? Well, give it time and maybe I'll change it. I was looking at the original front page and realized it reeks a little much of the high-school-cum-early-college mode in which it was created. Yes, I admit it, I was embarrassed by it. I keep it as marker of who I was (and, yes, I admit this too, I still kind of like it), but for my MAIN page, I wanted something a little, well, simpler.

Below are the things I'd really rather draw people's attention to, and the main reasons I continue to maintain this account, even though I don't do regular "maintenance" on it.

You can contact me via email at shawn dot trivette at gmail dot com.

At the bottom of the page is my google calendar.

Interesting pictures

• Europe, June 2005
• Central America, June 2007 (with my sister)
• My 28th birthday, Sept. 12, 2008

Some academic stuff

• How to Apply Sociological Terms -- a handout I made for my class on how to apply four common sociological terms (social structure, social construction, social norm, and social control). Definitions are includes, as well as some prompting ways to phrase questions so as to help in applying the terms. Examples given come from my Sexuality and Society class. You are welcome to use it in your own class, so long as my name stays attached to it (please let me know if you do -- I'd love to have feedback).

Some of my music

• 2012: The Hour
• Psalm 139 - Piano/Vocal arr.
• In the Name of God
• Psalm 139 - Choral arr.

Other music

• Chamber Choir Fall 08 Concert (actually, it's their dress rehearsal -- the semester I couldn't sing with the choir, but still was there for the dress to record all of the concert)

Some of my (better*) writing

Stories - Fiction

• Pardon, Your Highbeams are On -- a dark story (nearly poetic, but not quite) inspired by driving in front of someone's high beams one night on the way home from swim practice during high school
• Brothers -- a heartwarming tale of two brothers and a roller coaster
• Scrambled Eggs & Bacon -- what happened to all of the fairy tale characters? find out here.
• Amateurs -- written with Dan Smith for the SF/F class (kind of long)
• The Closet -- a thoughtful piece about closets, and the confines that all of us face from time to time

  Poems

• Bad Magnetic Shakespeare Poetry
• Smutty Emily Poem #1 -- A "challenge" to write sexy poetry using a collection of words found in Emily Dickenson's poetry. It was a short list. There will be more. And I will find a way to use this in the class I teach...

  Essays and Term Papers (Note that all are in Microsoft Word (.doc) format; none of these are really "publishable")

• Homonegativism -- The culminating paper for an Honors Directed Study on Homonegativism and Sexual Prejudice (Fall 01)
• Honors 1010 Revisions -- Another paper from an Honors Directed Study on revising our Introduction to Honors class (Spring 02)
• Censorship is Not a Family Value -- My term paper for the Banned Books and Censorship Honors Colloquium (books used were Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite, Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman, and The Drowning of Stephan Jones by Bette Greene) (Spring 03)
• Straight Eye for the Queer Guy -- Two papers from my Introduction to Social Research class (Fall 03)
• Drunk on God -- My paper on the Sufi mystic Rumi for Mysticism (Spring 05)
• Many Paths, One God -- My paper on my major mystic, Ramakrishana, for Mysticism (Spring 05)
• Opening the Door -- My (joint) research project on the stages of adjustment of parents of gays and lesbians (Spring 05; with Sherri Phillips)

  * Or at least more entertaining

Page last updated: March 25, 2009