Over the past six years, since I started college in the fall of 2004, I have tried twice to keep up a blog, but both times I have failed. During my freshman year, the friends I made online convinced me to get a xanga, and since they all updated their xangas, we kept each other honest for about a year. However, as life went on and we all got too busy to be bothered to regularly update, my xanga fell by the wayside and has probably been deleted by now. When I started graduate school in the fall of 2008, a separate group of friends were on livejournal, so I got an lj account as well. I still login there every day because even if my friends stopped updating, most of the communities I joined are still going strong. At the very least, they keep me updated on my British actors and allow me to squee with like-minded people.
Now it is December 2010, and I've decided to try once more. All of the blogs I currently follow are on blogger, hence my new account on a new website. I'm graduating this semester with my masters degree, so a new chapter of my life is beginning, making the desire to document it even stronger than before. I never feel like my life is exciting enough to write about, but keeping a regular blog would help me remember all the fun little moments that I might forget down the road. I also think a blog would be a fun way to share all the movies, TV shows, books, and music that I find. I'm always looking for new things to love and obsess over, and in the past few years, nearly all of my discoveries have occurred through the internet. So if even one person discovers the joy of Doctor Who or McFly through my blog, even if it's someone I don't know, then I'd say this blog has been worth it.
All right, I've explained why this blog exists, so I guess I could say a little bit about me. Here's ten random facts, and maybe in the future I'll do some more (gotta save something to blog about later!)
1. I have two degrees in history (bachelors and masters), and yes, I've resigned myself to being poor.
2. I've lived in Alabama my whole life, and I never want to leave...except to live in England.
3. I've spent the past year researching and writing my masters thesis, so if you ever need to know something about Alabama's Constitution of 1901, I'm your girl.
4. My favorite TV show is Doctor Who, my favorite band is McFly, and I can confidently say that they will still be my favorites ten years from now. From the moment I first encountered each of them, I knew it was true love.
5. I almost exclusively choose which movies to watch based on the actors...I've watched many a sub-par film in the quest to see one of my obscure British actors.
6. I played clarinet in middle school and high school, and I was absolutely rubbish at it.
7. Speaking of rubbish, I've watched so much British TV and movies that I occasionally slip British slang and pronunciations into normal conversations.
8. Now that I'm finished with school, I fully intend to start learning Spanish again (I was a Spanish minor as an undergrad) and I plan to learn a little Korean too.
9. I've only been out of the country once, but I hope to travel to Europe every couple of years once I get a real job with a proper salary.
10. If I have extra money, chances are it'll quickly be spent on a book or a DVD. The best investment I will ever make is to buy quality bookshelves instead of cheap ones that lean under the weight of all my books (like the one currently in my bedroom).
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