Those people should totally adopt you, msbelle. I'm sure you would be a credit to their family.
I need to shower and get moving. I don't wanna!
Wesley: Illyria can be...difficult. Testing her might be hard without getting someone seriously hurt. Angel: We'll make Spike do it. Wesley: Good.
'Underneath'
Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - May 17, 2006 6:17:52 am PDT #7756 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sue - May 17, 2006 6:29:26 am PDT #7757 of 10002
hip deep in pie
They should adopt you as a vacation kid, and then send you on swank vacations!
That would be fabulous.
The first online person I met was Elena B. Megan and I went together, in case she was an ax-murderer. It was a little awkward at first, but it worked out fine. Megan thought Elena seemed really normal. It worried her. We learned better later.
Ever since then meeting online people has been much easier. I don't know if it's because I've gotten used to it, or because I've mostly been hanging out with people online so long now, that we have a shared history, which gives us something to talk about.
Jesse - May 17, 2006 6:30:11 am PDT #7758 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Daytime tv update: Richard Simmons on Martha Stewart's show. He's super-annoying, obviously, but it's hilarious that he keeps trying to get Martha to be silly, and she absolutely refuses. Finally she was like, "I have tasks to get done here!!" She's such a hard-ass.
Trudy Booth - May 17, 2006 6:34:43 am PDT #7759 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
My first Buffistas met were Fiona, Scola, Joe Boucher, MsBelle, David (who's last I don't remember), Martha, Michele Tepper and possibly Joey D, Jesse, & Megan Walker at Fiona's corporate apartment when she was in NYC on business (the corporate apt. seemed like such a good idea just in case anyone was a white slaver then they wouldn't know anyone's actual home).
I think my first Non-Yorker 'ffista was Teppy whom I met sitting on my stoop when I got home from work and stayed with me for several days. Guess I'd gotten over ax murderer frears by then.
Lee - May 17, 2006 6:40:29 am PDT #7760 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Happy Birthday Vortex!!
3 hours of action-adventure tv shows is apparently at least an hour too much. I had exhausting shoot'em up dreams. Both cats were occupying the pillows which is usually a sign I've been thrashing around too much in my sleep. Oh, and the fact I was all tangled up in the sheets. Getting out of bed shouldn't be as complicated as it was this morning.
When I have nights like that, the cats normally cower in the other room, the pillows end up on the floor, as do the sheets.
Nice Logo!
The first online people I met IRL were Kat and Lori. After I had to cancel once or twice because of work, I was supposed to meet them at the Grove, across the street from my apartment complex. I told them to park in my apartment complex to save money, so I ended up running into them there. I hadn't seen a picture of them yet, but Kat's description made me recognize them.
They were kissing when I walked up though, so I had to wait until they stopped before I could say hello.
juliana - May 17, 2006 6:44:19 am PDT #7761 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VORTEX!!!!! Soon I shall be plying you with mojitos. Muhahahaha.
First online person I met was Joey Dee, back in PF/WX days. Second was Deb, when I flew out to SF for Halloween in 2001. Good times.
Ailleann - May 17, 2006 6:46:04 am PDT #7762 of 10002
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
She's such a hard-ass.
Prison will do that to you.
My first online meeting was not someone from here. (I haven't met any Buffistas yet!) His name's Bill, and I don't even remember how I got to talking to him anymore. He came out to visit me and some others from NY when I was in college. I remember my mother thinking I was crazy after the fact. He's a sweetie, though I don't talk to him nearly as often anymore.
Sean K - May 17, 2006 6:47:41 am PDT #7763 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Happy Vortex Day!
Theodosia - May 17, 2006 6:48:12 am PDT #7764 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Long before the Buffistas ever took definitive form on the Table Talk boards, I'd already met Betsy HP, Lysana, and Mitch Wagner in passing at SF cons and the like. So I had a degree of comfort in considering going to a group watching at Nora's or inviting the proto-Somervillains to my house....
Kathy A - May 17, 2006 6:51:11 am PDT #7765 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My first F2F meeting was April 1999 in DC, when I met a group of people from my first discussion board (Fourth Turning, the Strauss and Howe generational history website). That F2F was really unusual, since it was co-organized by the authors, involved an NBC camera crew following us around most of the weekend, a taping of C-Span's BookNotes about being an online book discussion group, and a tour of various memorials with commentary by Neil and Bill (which drew attention from other tourists, who were wondering if they were "somebody famous").
I fell out of keeping up on that board after discovering Salon and Table Talk, (and eventually all you guys!) but it does lead to "Hey, I know that guy!" moments such as when I was watching a History Channel show on Sacco and Vanzetti, and saw one of the 4T F2F people featured as the major talking head in the documentary due to his recent book on the pair.