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[arcee8]

Hurricane Ike can't make up his mind - is he going to hit Browntown or is he going to hit H-town? Andy told me yesterday that the school was contemplating having all the athletic teams go to Austin with them. Gah. If that's the case, I sure hope they don't ask me to drive. I would be PISSED

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[trillian4210]

I've decided that I'm going to research and study fan fiction as a literary force in the modern world and popular culture and how it's evolved from the past re-telling of stories like Beowulf, the Bible, and fairy tales.

Oh..that sounds awesome. You could also add something about the writers of fanfic who spent 2 and half years writing a fanfic novel instead of their own original stuff!!! Ahem. And the deadly, habit-forming nature of the craft.

It's addicting, I swear. I had to wean myself off of it with some serious contemplation about the nature of time, and how better it could be spent; the making of parental units proud; how money is earned; and how the instant gratification of reviews is not a substitute for taking your mother to Austria with an advance check from a publisher. :P

[arcee8]

But hey - that's one thing I want to discuss in my paper. Sometimes serious writers are born from writing silly fanfics. I'm one of them. I actually started off writing original stories, but I didn't write really original stuff until AFTER I started writing fan fiction "seriously."

It's fun, and it doesn't seem worthwhile, but it can be in the long run, right?

[trillian4210]

I hope you're right! If that's the case, then I have it made. :)

[ennisdrake]

Holy Fucking Shit! I must have a copy of your thesis when it's done. Seriously. That's genius.

PS: Crush alert! Crush alert! *heh* (at least this guy's a doctor)

[arcee8]

Haha...well, you can certainly read it. I'm kind of excited because I'm pretty sure that no one has studied fan fiction before in a scholarly fashion.

And as for my crush, I suppose it's not a real crush. He's like 46 or something and married, but he's so darn smart and cute (and not even really that cute. It's definitely his personality). I took a lot of classes with him when I was doing my undergrad stuff. He's a genius when it comes to Linguistics and the history of languages.