Welcome

Boys, girls, freaks, geeks, and intellectuals, welcome to "Geek Brains," where brains are bad, good, and bizarre, where it's ok to stare, and it's ok to speak. It is a pleasure to have you as my guest. We will be good friends for a long time, I reckon. Allow me to introduce myself first. My name is Gabriela Preiss. My parents are both immigrants, but I was born in America. I was raised in San Antonio, TX, where my two sisters and I have reveled and marinated in the heat, smells, colors, festivals, rythyms, words, peoples, superstititions, and streets of Mexican/Latin culture. I am an English major, finishing up my final school year at UTSA (UTSA and UT having the leading Chicano literary depts. in the US), and I will begin my high school student teaching in the Spring of 2012.

My summer has only begun, and I plan on enjoying it. I am working, struggling to save up money to travel somewhere, anywhere, before school ends. My last trip was back in december, I had the fortune of visiting New Orleans for the first time, a dark, strange city that is undeniably gothic even on the sunniest days, celebrating their delapidated architecture, fast rythyms, and laid-back dispositions. The whole city seemed to be pressing in on itself, struggling to hold itself up from the constant pressure emitted by  the humidity, heavy basses, and swallowing cobble-stoned streets.