Fistreja and Super Shorts Go Digital

Once upon a time...not long ago, actually,...two not super young, aspiring graduate students sat next to one another in a musty classroom on the basement "floor" of an old brick building in god-knows-where New Jersey. It could not have been a more typical graduate school experience. Fistreja, as she would later be named, was diligently pretending to take notes on the history of pauperism in Britain and North America. In actuality, she was trying to retrace the exact steps, i.e. the life breakdown, that must have led her into this dungeon of a classroom on the east coast. Meanwhile, Super Shorts and the Stapler, known to all at the time as Alex and Ryan, sat expertly flipping between their course notes and scrolling through the various social media, current events, and comic tabs open on their laptops. If one were to look upon this scene from the single, tiny window in the door of the classroom, he or she would hardly notice the key element that brought these super heroes together on that fateful evening--the outlet of power!

Now in today's world one might expect there to be more than one power outlet in a "digital classroom," but, luckily for our super heroes, the term "digital" involves much fewer electrical features at a public university in New Jersey. It is perhaps tragic to think that, without this single power outlet, Fistreja might never have approached the Princeton duo. But, as destiny would have it, her not-so-trusty, fruit-labeled laptop was, without a doubt, unable to hold a charge through a single class in her graduate program. And so, the three-way dual for the two-outlet power source began...and continued...every Monday...from 6:40-8:40p...September through December...until, of course, the super bond between our incredibly domestic characters was formed. Thus, it is through this single power source and this incredibly domestic exchange of chords that the adventures of Fistreja and Super Shorts began.

But I am not here today to recount all the details of Fistreja's and Super Shorts' incredibly domestic origin story or the many sagas that followed. I am here to announce Fistreja's incredibly domestic decision to take "The Incredibly Domestic Adventures of Fistreja and Super Shorts" online. And, of course, to extend my super domestic invitation to Super Shorts to journey with me into the incredibly domestic realm of social media and...blogging.

To start us off, I have developed our unbelievably domestic avatars in bitstrips (they are, in fact, WAY more domestic, i.e. PG, than I had intended) and I have created a tiny image to document our first digital adventure. I have sent you a super domestic and generic invite to edit this blog via this website!  I am challenging you to this new form of domestic adventure and hope you will join me!

Much love,

Fistreja!