Just thought I'd explain the name of the blog. "Supernova" was the title of the song that happened to come on shuffle as I was trying to think of a name for this blog. “Call me supernova” is how I thought the line started, but the actual line is more depressing and unsuitable for this blog (“Gone, the supernova’s over, burned out”). The word supernova also reminded me of so many things all at once:
- That song that got me thinking, which has to do with the singer’s battle with cancer, because so many people close to me have suffered and are suffering through treatments;
- My family's old orange Chevy Nova, which my sister learned to drive on, affectionately but semi-scornfully called the little orange scooter;
- The astronomy class my friend Andrew and I took one summer when we over-bonded during class, Sex and the City marathons, and generally spending 24/7 together;
- How I know, because of that class, what a supernova is, and how I feel like bursting sometimes when I’m writing in my head and am just trying to hold onto the words until I can get to a piece of paper or computer before they and their magical sounds go sliding out of my distressingly short memory.
So, you can call me Supernova (plain old supernova.blogspot.com was taken by someone who hasn't posted since 2001... grrr), and hopefully this blog will give me a way to capture those words and share them. So far, so good.
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