And so it begins . . .

Here be the gist: Sisters in the land of Blog.  Cursed to embark continually on flights of fancy, quests after quarry, discoveries of destiny, journeys through the jumble, voyages for visions, and marches into the melee. 

Translation: We, Amanda and Megan, bound together by fate and limited living space make a daring leap into the digital world.  After one semester of rooming together, we find ourselves in need of an outlet for the abundant energy created by our coexistence, direction for the dreams induced by our proximity.  Blogging seemed the (un)natural choice.  And so here we, self-proclaimed Ravenclaws (also HP fanatics), intend to record our forays into subjects varied and vast. 

First and foremost, this blog will be the bulletin board of our new year's project:  Like any Ravenclaws, we are not satisfied with simply learning in the classroom.  The world is our classroom!  Every two weeks we will begin a new extracurricular inquiry into a randomly drawn topic.  Our ways may diverge as we choose different aspects of topiary or taxidermy or what-have-you to examine, but we will always have the common room to come back to. 

This is not to say that other topics than what has been chosen won't be smuggled in here somehow.  I'm sure Miyazaki will turn up when we're supposed to be researching South American vegetation, or our latest Youtube favorites when we should be pouring over shoe polish. 

That's the somewhat overweight skinny. 

Fin.