I'm such a commitment-phobic drama queen.

Nonetheless, tickets for Los Angeles departing Orlando on the 3rd of December and returning the 8th have been purchased. I keep mentioning all these details because I don't know if I can quite believe that it's all happening. It's wild, man, and a little crazy, too, since I'm taking off the last week of school to do it. Not that I care much at all, it just complicates things a bit so I'm being adventurous and reckless, things I don't like mixing. We'll see how much of that I can get taken care of in the next couple of weeks.

To that end, I'm off to sketch some questions for my Britney article, then showering for class. I started Ri's Bassez last night, and that feels so good because it's been giving me little panic butterflies for the past week. Nothing like having four paragraphs to shove in the face of a stubborn story idea.

[ETA: Saw the Bassez red carpet clip, and Lance doing his best imitation of an entertainment reporter is absolutely hilarious. "So tell us, JC, the whole world wants to know, is *NSYNC getting back together?" Teehee. Cheeky monkey.]

Where is the love, y'all?

All this "can't tell anyone what to like" and "keep your pairing squee to yourself" talk is baffling me. I wasn't around for the JuC/Bassez true believers conflict, but I understand that was long eons ago and I'd hope none of the remaining irrational and rabid fans on either side are circulating around polite society anymore and that people have since chosen to conduct themselves in the kind of egalitarian way that seems to be the spirit behind the pairings being written, the distribution of which seems ever-surprisingly fair. Woo, they grabbed hands - that does not for an official One True Pairing make. Is that what people are saying and why everyone else is up in arms? *scratches head* Joey and Chris rassled at Challenge, I've got about 2083495723 pictures of Joey and Lance in various stages of groping each other, another 2103432532 of Justin and JC making eyes, etc. Seriously, yo, one of my first remarks about the fandom was how cool it is that there are ten pairings and that all of them are being written (with extrapolatable canonic basis, too.) I thought we were past vilifying each other based on pairing preferences.

As for Bassez specifically, I was once of the mind that it was mostly a pairing wallowing in pretty and hot sex and nothing approaching practical, but that's the kind of narrow-mindedness that being widely-read demolishes. Seriously, it's all about finding good writers who love their subjects.

In other news, oh my god! This eggnog stuff is downright fantastic! I've been missing out on this for twelve years? *boggles*

McKeen said my hot button phrase during the lecture on Rolling Stone today, "disposable music," which stirred up all kinds of things so I cornered Al during his lunch hour and we had a great chat about Britney and Prince and Marvin Gaye and The Beatles and the legitimacy of pop(ular, and it's so unfortunate that people forget that that's what it actually stands for) music as a cultural influence. I'm still digesting most of it, and it might evolve into something else beyond the two-page feature on Brit's album I'm working on.