So what precisely are these "Archivist's Ramblings"? Well...I'm the archivist, and these are my ramblings...let's see...My name is Summer, I'm 18 (as of December 1997) and I go to a tiny little women's college called Cottey.

I'm actually fairly boring as people go....I started reading FanFiction in January of 1997. I believe that Lydia Bower's "Dance Without Sleeping" was my very first story. Then I discovered the joys of Gossamer.... And this Canadian person called Jackie St. George. I e-mailed Sheryl who was kind enough to send me the titles of all of her St. George stories in order. I saved them all to disk without even reading them first-then promptly got caught up in my insane RL and forgot about them. That is I forgot about them until I was sorting disks one day and came upon one labeled "X-Files FanFiction Disk 3-Jackie St. George". I read all 56 (at the time) in two nights.

I started reading all of Sheryl's other stories, and got hooked. Last December, in an e-mail, she mentioned that she didn't have web access, I wrote her and asked her if she'd like an archive and she said yes, so the result is what you'll see when you hit the "back" button on your browser :o).

So, not that this is the Oscars or anything, but now I have to say thank you to some people. Yeah, yeah, I know. You don't have to read this part if you don't want to, but I only have a few people to thank, honest! First off, there's my mom and dad for getting me a computer and...ok, ok. Seriously, I want to thank Sheryl for writing such fantastic stories and for very patiently putting up with my all my questions, I want to thank Karen, Amy, Katalina and Erin for letting me use their pictures, and last but definitely not least, I want to thank the good Archivist Fairy -- someone who asked not to be named but is the most active lurker in the X-Files FanFic community that I know of. So thank you very much .