And lo! A blog was born.

Cue hallelujah chorus.

I suppose this is the mandatory introductory post that is expected in the beginning of every blog, where the (imaginary?) readers of this blog will want to know something about me.

Fiiiine.

As may be hinted at by the title of this blog (inspired by one of the visitors to my dorm room, who said with great delight that my room is like a little nerd haven. Not sure if it was the lightsabre chopsticks or the massive Aragorn poster that earned that title...), I am one of the biggest nerds that I know. Proof? I own a betta fish named Darth Revan, I can recite obscure Tolkien writings, I am the only person I know who actually read and finished The Silmarillion when I was twelve (after reading the Lord of the Rings in six days. Yes, six.), I admit to writing Star Wars fanfiction, I also admit to fangirl-crushing on Obi-Wan Kenobi and Atton Rand, I've played through and successfully beaten Battle for Middle-earth II and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic on PC, have named my laptop Darth Byte, and have a little Frodo plushie on my desk. Also, I am one of only two people I've met who dressed like an Elf and actually wore prosthetic pointy ears to her high school graduation. The other person was my best friend.

Outside of this blog, Facebook and Google+, I'm known on the Internet under the alias of Xaja Silversheen. A Google search will bring up my fanfiction page, my deviantART account, a fanfiction forum (where we take the BAD fanfics and riff the snot out of them, MST3K style, at the risk of our sanity and brain cells) and my much-neglected YouTube account. Are ye satisfied, lurkers?

I didn't think so either.

I'm a Social Science/Psychology major at Providence University College, with a minor in Communications and Media. This blog was actually born out of necessity, for a Writing for the Media course that requires a blog post every day.

That's right. This blog will actually be updated more frequently than my deviantART or fanfiction accounts. Feel special, readers.

On a related note, my apologies to the dA and FFN followers. The muse hates me. Enough said.

What else shall I say? This blog also starts the same day as the Fall 2011 Semester at Prov, so this will follow my adventures or what I see/hear/smell/whatever during the coming semester. And possibly even after the end of this semester, too. And there was much rejoicing. (Yay!)

On that note, 'tis lovely to meet all you lurkers, most of whom I probably know IRL from Dr. Greco's class.

'Til the next time I drag myself from the lair...