Hey, I'm published!

[lissafay]

The book in which my paper appears arrived in our mailbox today!  I am so excited!  I can't wait to get home and actually see my name in print.  For those of you who are interested in a collection of essays on the final two seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, click here.  Wheeeee!  Please encourage your local libraries to stock my book!

As a super

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[fireglade]

where's your tra-la-la icon?
i think it would be appropriate to such a monumental occasion! :D

of course,
a few rounds of "Pomp and Circumstance"
wouldn't be out of place either! ;D

[lissafay]

Hehe! I have duly changed this entry's icon! Lately, I've been forgetting that I have more than one icon in my arsenal.

Can't wait to get home and see the book!

[springbound]

Woot, congrats! Man they take a while to publish a book, huh?

Know what you mean about essay writing... Given a subject I actually was interested in (of course if I'm not it's not the same at all) writing essays was great, a good way of consolidating what you've learnt from others and what you think. Nifty that you're still looking at participating in that whilst not affiliated with a university (ie in academia)... The thought never really occurred to me, but that's very cool!

[lissafay]

It certainly has been a long time in the making...I wrote the original paper for presentation at a conference more than four years ago!!

One of the things I used to love about taking courses is being able to come up with my paper subjects myself; I would approach my profs and ask them if I could put my own spin on something or other from the list of proposed topics they'd provided. Most of the time, I then ended up being able to write something that both related to the classwork and my outside interests. I wrote papers about (anti)feminism in Survivor, Jungian archetypes in BtVS, parapsychological phenomena on The X Files, comparing the traditional gothic heroine to Buffy, dissecting an old murder mystery story by Wilkie Collins with a bit of queer theory, and my very own queer/Christian Modest Proposal, among other things. I *loved* paper time!

Sigh...now I want to take another English course. :P

[righteousbean]

Hey - I found you at random. I'm in search of interesting people that I could add to my list.

Mind if I add you?

[lissafay]

Sure, go ahead and add me! I'm pleased to make your acquaintance.

[righteousbean]

awesome!