o hai! fancy seeing you here.
It appears as though, unbeknownst to me, blog posts do not actually write themselves.
It’s been three months – three months! – since I’ve posted here. Which is just silly, to say the least. There are quite a number of half-written posts sitting as drafts in my WordPress dashboard, on subjects ranging from amateurization to that week my refrigerator tried to plot my demise. I guess those gnomes I hired to polish and publish my writing decided to pack up without letting me know. Such is the way of mythical beings – always proving themselves elusive and unreliable.
Seriously though, this was not The Summer of Writing I thought it would be. It was more The Summer of The Comedy of Errors, although far less interesting than the Shakespeare original. I’d write about it, but you’d probably be bored to tears. I actually think it’s more interesting if it just hangs there and makes you wonder about it, which says a lot about the entertainment value of my life recently. Entertaining to me? Endlessly. Entertaining to anyone else? Not so much.
School started this week, and I have to say it sure did sneak up quick. It always sneaks up quick, and I’m always surprised by that fact. Every. Single. Year. And let me tell you, I’ve been in school for a long damn time. That is not a complaint – there isn’t a thing I love more than learning, and learning with other people is always more invigorating. This semester, I’m only taking two classes, and after only one day they are already proving to be fantastic. I have a linguistics course – Language and Gender – which combines two of my favorite subjects, and a capstone literature course.
The first readings for literature were especially intriguing. Two of them – The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem and Scan This Book! by Kevin Kelly – are about plagiarism, copyright, creative commons, etc., and they are both great reads.
Go read them! I’ll wait.
Good, yeah? Not only are the reading themselves great, but I am super excited to have a literature course with a professor interested in digitization and new media. These themes have come up to some degree in a few of my other courses, but never has a lit professor opened the class with these topics. It is especially good timing because this is the year I’ll be working on my Senior Thesis, and although the narrow focus is still up in the air, the general theme is Digital Humanities – the cross-section of academia and technology, if you will. I am honored to have been accepted as a HASTAC scholar, which I know will add yet another layer of Awesome to this semester’s work. I’d say more about all of that, but I’ll be blogging at HASTAC too, so I gotta save some brain bits for them. I’ll be sure to let you guys know when I do.
Despite my apparent lack of fairytale creatures, I am expecting riveting things from the coming year, both online and off. And now that I know that blog posts don’t write themselves, well I guess I can get down to writing them the old-fashioned way – clickity-click-click-click.
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