Aww, girlfrand. You continue to rock at this blog thing. I hope that in two hundred years some cyber-archaelogist comes across my blog and laughs. Well, she might just shake her head.

Wow, girl. You are pretty good at the whole blogging thing, aren't you? A blog post a year does not a good blogger make.

Oh well! Hello! Yeah. I suck at posts. Sorry about that. To make up for it, let's have some rambles. (It sounds like a fancy drink, doesn't it? 'Rambles.' Or maybe a card game. Either way, it sounds like something you'd find at a casino. Not that I've ever been inside a casino, unless you count the Penny Arcade or Dave and Buster's. No?)

I'm really interested in how academics and social life combine. I think that for the most part the two should intersect and inform one another. Maybe I'm lazy and use this as an excuse for not actually always doing my homework, but I draw connections between classes and apply the things I'm learning more easily if I'm able to connect it to stuff that means a lot to me outside of the classroom. (I'm personally leaning towards the Holly is Lazy camp. Dunno about you.) Okay, so I had a grand scheme for this blog post, and it was going to involve Fan Culture and interpretation theory and that's where this entire ramble about intersecting realms (I sound like a sorcerer now) was going to take this post. Fan Culture, which I took last spring, was pretty transformative for me. It let me bring in things I knew and loved, like fanfiction (don't you laugh. You've read fanfiction) and shipping debates, into an academic setting. That sparked the idea for me, and it's continued into classes this year (although I can't say I'm ever going to be too successful at namedropping theorists. I love me some Barthes, though.) Has anyone else experienced this awesome, mind-blowy feeling of "everything in my life can tie together!" in any of their classes?

Okay. Thank you for letting the English major take the stage for a few moments! I can't get too academic, though. My favorite books to read are still of the girl power young adult fantasy variety, and that's not going to change any time soon! Diana Wynne Jones and Gail Carson Levine forever. :)

P.S. Kicked WoW forever. Sorry, Adéle. You were one fierce warlock and we emerged victorious over some wicked foes together, and you'll always be my favorite evil pixelated avatar, but real life wins.