A Gothic Education

I'm working the late shift today and that means a lot of time to myself.  I like to use this time to work on creative projects such as my burgeoning vampire novel which I am currently calling "Servant of Dracula."  After many months of being stalled on the project I was able to make some headway today.  I think I really needed to get in touch with that part of myself that the story resides in.

Part of getting in touch with the darker side of myself has included time spent at Darkside University.  I didn't get to spend nearly as much time working on the Goth courses there as I would have liked last year.  I especially enjoyed working through the "History 101" course which gives a really good historical timeline of the goth scene, about half of which occurred when I was too little to really participate.  

Although the course is now ended the materials are still available so I have spent a good chunk of my time perusing the articles and videos there.  I often find my fascination for this lifestyle to come and go in waves, just as other aspects of my personality do.  I'm not quite schizophrenic but I'm definitely rootless.  Does that rootlessness contribute to a "gothic" personality?  I don't know but it will always be a part of me and so I will continue to learn more and try to contribute if I can to the goth community.