A
Web Page for Craig Hilts
Graduate student in the Department
of Linguistics at the Ohio State University.
Family:
Weezy - a shoe-wearing (self-described) native Kentuckian , infinitely patient, debatable taste in partners.
Gabe - Mechanical genius since the age of 2, lifelong artist, cool dude; future industrial designer.
Emerin - Loquacious since before she described herself as such at age 4, adventurous cook since age 8, a
princess; future radiation oncologist/lawyer.
Mariel - Dancer, performer of incredible presence, totally in touch with the "culture"; future diva.
All: intelligent, funny, caring, and generous, and GEMs are living proof of the receding tide in my gene pool.
Interests: Language contact, San Juan Bautista de Atepec Zapotec, English intonation, Language and Gender
Pastimes:
Avid worm drowner (the
difference between a fisherman and a bum is the pole)
Unpracticed musician (no
bucket fits the tunes)
Unabashed punster (but
often bashed)
History:
Spent deformative
years kissing cacti in the Upper Sonoran desert.
Worked as rest home
orderly, delivery driver, pan polisher, professional juicer, shadetree
mechanic's assistant,
oilfield roustabout, salvage agent, worm-growing kit salesman, and cabinetmaker.
Took 25 years and
three majors (creative writing, systems engineering, linguistics) to earn a B.A.
*All
architectural details for this page have been sketched on a bar napkin by the
infrastructural engineering firm of Costeau,Virruhn, and DeTour.