Vacation, All I Ever Wanted!

Whee! Today I turned in my last final for my last class of graduate school. Next semester I have to complete a full-time internship or working internship (job), and then life can go on as normal!

To celebrate my newfound freedom (and returning sanity), I'll indulge in a tag-- Meg at All About Appearances tagged me to post 8 random things about myself. I have to admit, this is the first time I've been tagged, so I'm actually kind of excited about it!

The rules are:

Link back to whomever tagged you.

Post these guidelines before your list.

After you list your eight things, tag eight (of however many you want) other bloggers


1. I'm a contributing writer for Miss Malaprop. It's not unusual for people to get Miss Malaprop and I confused though or assume that only one person writes for the blog.

2. I have an irrational fear of getting in to running cars. As a child, I hated it and would make my parents turn the car off before I got in. Now that I'm older, it doesn't bother me as much, but sometimes it makes me a bit twitchy.

3. A friend recently embarassed me by brining a new acquaintance over with her. She then took the person in to my room, showed them the inside of my closet and said, "Look at all of those shoes! And she doesn't even wear half of them!" I love shoes. I love buying them and getting to wear them. But when people make a big deal of it, I kind of get ashamed.

4. I am a film academic through and through-- I can argue the social identifers and cultural commentary on a film like Josie and the Pussycats as well as I can anything by Ingmar Bergman. That doesn't mean I don't love a shitty action film or a trashy horror film as much as the next white trash man. In fact, I've going in to my second year doing freelance work for an international horror film festival, and will be structuring programming and panels that will show that horror is as smart as any other film genre.

5. I'm an equally split Yank and Rebel. I've spent 12 years of my in the South, about 8 years in the New England, 2 in the Midwest, and the miscellaneous two on the West Coast (my family was military). As a child I hated being called "That little Yankee Girl," and since Hurricane Katrina, have fondly thought of the South as my home.

6. Now that I get to go back to working full-time, these are things I am looking forward to doing again: photography, sewing, knitting, cooking, dancing, socializing, cleaning. I've taken too long a hiatus on them all, quite to my heart and soul's ache.

7. If I could make one wish, it would be for a limitless credit card that pays itself off. All the shopping I could ever want to do, without any of the financial risk!

8. During my undergraduate years, I used to be quite the Party Girl, but not in the keggers sense. I spent two to three nights a week at the local clubs, dressed in my favorite 80s/new wave/electroclash trashions, dancing and drinking the night away. It actually resulted in a weight loss of ~ 60 pounds. School + working too much has taken away that time, and as a result, I've gained too much back. Boo!

And for the tagging fun, I'd like to get to know more about:
Glam and Tonic
Holiday in the Sun
(Into) the Fray
Paper Cities of Tomorrow
The Clothes Horse
This Second's Obsession
+ anyone else who has been waiting to get tagged!