Explanation

I feel that I should contextualize my previous post a little bit. After I finished my thesis in April, I fell off the deep end intellectually. Senioritis hit me really hard. While it obviously wasn't a terminal case (since I did end up with my diploma in the end), the slide into non-mentally challenging activities was a steep and speedy one. Shedding any pretense of intellectual discernment, I yielded to a current fad: Vampires. While reading Twilight camped out in the Borders at Columbus Circle (because I was too embarrassed that I was that girl to actually stand in line and pay for it), I realized that, although I was enjoying the overripe romanticism of it all in a particularly sinful way, I had some major issues with the plot. Breakup With the Vampire is my answer to that frustration. I am trying to keep it more generally vampiristic, and not just a parody of Stephanie Meyers, although my need to "research" the genre may just be the way I rationalize watching huge marathons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the vortex I fell into as soon as I got tired of Twilight. We'll see how that turns out...