Groups and Identities

Good evening!

So I haven't really blogged since getting back from Pamplona, and I don't plan to do so regularly until the thesis is done and I'm just focusing on my teaching job.  My thesis is moving ever closer to being off my back, and I've decided to take a little break this evening before possibly doing some more work.  Right now, the thesis seems to be coming into focus as a study of the mutual exclusivity of certain identities in early modern Spain (especially Navarre, where most of my primary source material is from), and how this characterization is much more nuanced and complicated than the pat explanation of certain groups and identities being considered inherently vile by everyone (including people who belong to those groups) or the more recent suggestion of Ruth McKay that occupation-based exclusion was just a figment of 18th-century illustrados' imagination.

SO, still keeping the general direction of my thesis in focus as I take this break, I've decided to create a list.  If I don't do this soon, this information may be completely lost forever!  You see, when I first joined Facebook WAYYYYY back in the spring of 2006 (yes, over half a decade ago), there were these things called "groups."  Now, groups still abound on Facebook, but they're in a totally new format.  Something about "pages" or whatever.  Anyway, Facebook is in the process of archiving/deleting all the groups of the old format.  Once they do this, I don't know if I'll be able to see what group memberships I've accumulated, especially in those early years.

I'm not sure if I would still identify with all of these groups, but they seemed like good ideas at the time.  For now, I'm not going to include any explanation for any of them.  The attraction to some of them, after all, was the sheer wittiness of their group names.

Here are the identities, groups, and causes I've accumulated on Facebook since the spring of 2006, in alphabetical order:

8th Graders need to back off 9th grade guys especially other peoples BF's
757
Abortion is a Complicated Issue
a little math for you: House > Grey's Anatomy...
American Legion Boys Nation 2005 Alumni
American Legion Boys State Alumni (Global)
Angelina Can Wreck My Home
Anti-Popped Collar Club
Anyone That Says They Hate Virginia Obviously Never lived in Hampton Roads!
Audition for the W&M Choir!
Audition for the WM Choir!!
Automatic Doors Make Me Feel Like a Jedi
Beauty, Intelligence, & Personality.. yes, I am a Boys/Girls Nation Alumni!
Because I'm over the age of 6, I know the difference between your & you're
Bill Clinton Is Still My President
Botetourt Is Hot!
Bring back Habeas Corpus
Brunettes are Sexier
Burst Into Songsters
Cancel Class Tomorrow
Choir
Christian Apologetics
Christian Democrats
Christian Groups on Campus United
Churches for Middle East Peace
Club For the appreciation of Dostoyevsky
Colbert Nation
Concerned Students for the Advancement of Relevant Class Discussion (WM Chapter)
Defenders of Grammar and Spelling
Dog People
Don't Tickle Me Or I'll Kill You
F.A.T. - Friends Against Thomas
Facebook Members In Support of the Kyoto Protocol in the United States
FoMNiE - Fans of Music Not in English
For Every 1,000 that join this group I will donate $1 for Darfur.
Free Rice to end world hunger
Friends of Teach For America at William and Mary
Good Grammar Is Hot
Good News
Google Enthusiasts
Grammar Nazis
Great Minds were born in 1988!!!!
Harry Potter and the Bad Pickup Lines
History Honors Society
HOKAY, so here's the Earth!
House, Md
I'm Saving Myself For Wild, Passionate, Awkward Honeymoon Sex
I'M taking the hobbits to Isengard and I'm bringing facebook with me.
I assume you suck when your facebook status is grammatically incorrect.
I bet I can get 100,000 Virginians against the VA healthcare law suit
I bet we can find 1,000,000+ people who DO approve of the Health Care Bill.
I Hyperventilate When Katie Midland Is around
I live at a Wesley Foundation
I Need My Daily (Brian K.) Bailey.
I shouldn't have to walk through a haze of smoke to get into Swem!
Isle of Wight Academy Chargers
IWA cast and crew of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
IWA Posse... missed more than they will ever know!
IWA Scholastic Bowl - A Dynasty
I was there when Maite Cubilette destroyed a little piece of us all
I Went To a Small Little Private School
I Went To Private School....and therefore I am Better Than You.
JACKSON - Boys State of Virginia Best City 2005
Join this group if you've sung Renaissance polyphony with somebody in it...
Kaplan Krazies: Official Supporters of Tribe Men's Basketball
Leslie IS a Big Deal
Let us have had dared to translate a Pluperfect Semi-Deponent Subjunctive
Live from New York...it's Saturday Night
Man Law
Men
MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS!
My Church Preaches Social Justice
New United Methodist Hymnal
Non-Humanities Majors Lack an Informed and Nuanced Outlook on Life [WM Chapter]
oh my gosh, I totally just realized I'm the best!
oh thank heaven for the 757
Old School Nickelodeon (W&M Chapter)
One Accord Members and Fans
Overheard at William and Mary
Palpatine Vader 2008
Paper Can Not Beat Anything!!!!
People Who Use Handicapped Door Switches Daily
Peta (People Eating Tasty Animals)
Pick up a copy of The Virginia Informer today!  THEN BURN IT.
Pierce for State Representative-District 20
Pro-Choice, Anti-Abortion
Professor Beach Rocks My Socks
Proud to be called Liberal
Red State Refugees
Renew Gene Nichol's Presidency
Sleep... it's the new sex
Smithfieldians Fo Life.. YO
Snakes on a Facebook
Spike was SO clutch in the Land Before Time (the original)
Spotswood 06-07
Spotswood 3rd Lower 2006-2007
Students for the Preservation of the Oxford Comma
Support Stem Cell Research
SUPPORT THE PETITION
The Class of 2010
THE LORD ON HIS WAY BACK TO GET ME
The West Wing
The William & Mary Tribe's Woolly Mammoth
Treats vs. Nutes: A Clash as Old as Time
Tribe Basketball is good this year
Two Feathers
Vote NO on VA's "marriage amendment" Nov. 7th
Vote Rojas-Ruzic for SA President and Vice-President
Vote Stephanie McGuire for Class of 2012 VPSA
W&M Commencement 2010
W. Taylor Reveley, III
Want More?  Get More!.Scott Morris for SA Senate
We are ridiculously Methodist!
Wesley Basketball
Wesley Foundation
Wesley New Triathlon
Wesley Sports
When I was your age, Pluto was a planet.
When I was your age, the first African American President was elected.
When I was your age we double spaced after periods.
William & Mary IS Hogwarts, and MY dorm is Gryffindor Tower
William & Mary Supports Haiti
William and Mary says "No" to Ken Cucinelli's Discriminatory Letter
Without William and Mary, UVA wouldn't exist
WM Remembers Virginia Tech
Wonderful World of Disney
woooah, free laundry?
Worship & Song
You're killing me Smalls!!
You Are Not Married

I would like to point out that I am more than the sum of my various identities, and not all those identities are represented in my group memberships haha.  Maybe during my next break, I'll go back through those groups and get their front-page pictures.  Some of them are awesome =D.

Till then, good night!
-A