This post was supposed to be a quickie.

So I just wanted to make a quick update and let everyone know who I am and the purpose of this blog.

My name is Dani and I am a 5th year senior at the University of New Hampshire, dual majoring in Sociology and Women's Studies with minors in Justice Studies, Computer and Information Technology, Business Administration and possibly Queer Studies. Now that's a mouthful! During the semester I spend most of my time in class or working. My current courses are Sustainability and Spirituality, Cyberbodies, Family, Sociological Analysis, and Sociological Theory. I work in the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs as well as the Women's Studies Office, both on campus. I also can't live without social contact so I'm currently living in an apartment with four other amazing people, all of which I consider to be my closest friends.

I wanted to create this blog for several reasons.
  (1) It is a required part of one of my courses this semester.
  (2) I believe I am going to learn a lot of valuable information throughout this semester that I will probably analyze and want to record my thoughts about.

It is required for my Cyberbodies course to submit one blog post a week reflecting and analyzing the topics covered for that week, so I will be doing that here! Most posts (if not all) will be for class assignments but just to differentiate, class assignment posts will be denoted as such in the title and a label will be attached (which means from my home page if you scroll to the bottom and click "Cyberbodies" all of my posts for the class will show up).

I am also working on learning and seeing the world through a feminist lens, so I am looking to reflect that in this blog. Some of it may not be perfect, but I am still learning so be easy on me. Any comments are always welcome so feel free to leave them.

Peace & love. Namaste.

How do I wrap my head around this?

This is not my first blog.

It will, however, be my first active blog and probably my first blog in which I post things that are meaningful. By meaningful I mean things that I am interested in expressing my opinions on and things that are relevant to my life. Me, me, me. Isn't that what blogging is all about anyway? It's personal. It's all about me. It's also a bit nerve racking and I hear people go insane from becoming addicted to blogging. I can't imagine having a 'craving' to submit a post. Who knows. Maybe it comes in time?

So for whoever is out there is reading this, that's what you'll get if you continue reading. My interests, my opinions, my view of this intriguing world. Enjoy it while I'm still sane. Or enjoy watching me go insane.

Namaste.