Five months later and an entire semester later, I'm posting another blog.
Wow. I hope this doesn't become a trend for this thing. I'd like to post more regularly. If not every week, twice a month. We'll see what happens. Chronicling the last four weeks until I return to Knox and then chronicling my life at Knox. It will be fun, I think. I just have to find time to write up a blog post! Well, I'm finding the time now. Huzzah.
If I were about $500 richer, I would probably be just getting home from LeakyCon 2012. The conference was this past week (Thursday until today, I believe) held in Chicago at the Hilton - the same hotel that Terminus was held in 2008.
However, I do not have an extra $500 lying around, so I didn't end up going to the conference, and to be quite honest, I'm glad that I didn't go. For one thing, my sister Dariana and her friend Kim were in town this week visiting a friend, so had I gone to LC, I would have not seen Dariana or Kim, which would have made me very sad. Regardless of the fact that I just saw them three weeks ago when I was in New Hampshire visiting my friend Amy and also Dariana, I like to take every opportunity that I have to see them, considering they now live halfway across the country and I only get to see them two or three times each year. (New Hampshire, for the record, was wonderful, as usual. So pretty and I can't wait to move out there once I finish college. I just feel like that's where my body is most in sync. It's great that I've found that place for me.)
For another thing, I've been constantly reminded all summer how much I've moved on from the Potter fandom. I haven't regularly listened to wizard rock in nearly two years, I don't care about "major" events in the Potter fandom, such as the anniversary of the final book and final movies getting released. I don't care about the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts or anything. And I just can't make myself put out any effort to go to fandom-related events. I don't even want to make the effort to go see my favorite wizard rock musician (Alex Carpenter, in case anyone was wondering) when he's in Chicago or St. Louis, both of which are a five hour drive away, when previously I would be jumping up and down asking Mom or Dad if I could go and would they pretty please take me. Though, if Alex were to come play at my college for example - cough Knox College cough - I certainly would not be complaining. Just throwing that out there. And if none of my fandom friends are going to LeakyCon - all the ones who I hung out with at LeakyCon LAST year didn't go, which was a big part of the appeal of going to LC2012 this year - then I certainly have no desire to go to the conference, regardless its close proximity to me.
I've just found that I've moved on from the fandom. I'm far more concerned about growing as a person and doing well academically, etc., than I am about blowing a ton of money for a four-day event. I am very happy for what the fandom did for me when I still wanted it, considering it brought me one of my two best friends in the entire world, but I'm happy to move on. Our friendship isn't built around Potter anymore - it's built around what we've been through together, and whether or not that involves fandom, that's perfectly fine.
Essentially, I've come to realize that though I may miss it at times, my life doesn't rely on the Potter fandom to survive.
So I won't be at either LeakyCon next summer - seriously, that's another rant all together. Why on earth do they need TWO LeakyCons in the same summer??? - and I'm perfectly happy with that decision. I'm hoping to get an internship next summer, and of course I have to save up for my best friend's wedding that is next June.
So, until next Sunday, folks! Have a good week.
Countdown to Knox: (hopefully) 25 days. If not 25, then 27.
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