I tried reading some of my early posts (delurked sometime in mid 2000, I think) a little while ago, and wow, did I sound pretentious. Very surprised people didnt just roll their eyes and ignore me.

Ack. Im on a European keyboard and cant find the apostrophe.

Anyway, my secret santa present is going to be a bit late, what with the being in Europe. But it shall get there.

Did someone just say something? I'll just roll my eyes and pretend there are apostrophes.

My santee's is late too. I am not in Europe. It is purchased and lovely however.

I'm horrified that my gift will be so late...given that part of it is Xmas themed, dangit. But is should arrive tomorrow, Monday at the latest. Last time I trust holiday shipping promises! I'm going to shoot for the Black Friday post next time.

I think I sound pretty much the same. I dunno if that's a good thing or bad thing.

I started on TT in...2001? Yeah, I think. I had a job and steady at-home net access, so I spent a LOT of time at TT and WX back in the day. But I really like my job now, so I' m not resentful about less b.org time in the day. Xmas vaca's ARE nice for catching up, tho!

I AM resentful that I still have no TV show I loved as much as Buffy.

I don't even have the Europe excuse. I'm just late with my gift. It was the Slacker Santa exchange, however, what else should you expect.

Hey, Christmas is twelve days.

We have until January 6th before we're late!

Huh? We do? Yes. yes. Of COURSE we do. I, uh, I planned it that way...uh, yeaaaaah, that's the ticket.

thanks Trudy!

My gift will get to my Secret Santa giftee before the end of the 12 days of christmas.

I found the buffistas on TT. The paper ran an editorial by Anne Lamott and it listed salon.com so I went and checked out the boards. I read a lot of different threads and I liked TT, probably because the layout is similiar to my first online community (I never really have gotten the hang of UBB and other stuff). I can't remember if I lurked a long time or not, but I hadn't watched Buffy in awhile (didn't have tv) and started watching it again.

So much has happened since then in my life. I haven't gone back to look at my posts but I'm sure if I did I could read where I was hypomanic and not making sense. I haven't forged the kinds of relationships that others have and I regret that. It's something I struggle with IRL as well as online and I'm trying to correct that, it's just a slow process.

Christmas Eve I was at a relatives house talking to my 2nd cousin --we were talking about Battlestar Galattica and Firefly and I told him about the Buffistas. He said never thought a community could come about because of a show like Buffy. It was hard to explain exactly the ties that bind us, I pimped Allyson's book some and told him the super short version of ita moving to California. I forgot to mention Nilly Tour but I did mention the people who've met on the board, gotten married, the Buffista Babies.

So much has happened to this community,and there have been so many changes -- from starting a Natter thread in TT but having to hide it in another folder because the TT mods thought we had too many threads to discussions about thread prolifiration here.

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Heh. I had to post so I could click on my name to retrieve this:

Buffistaversary: June 2, 1999

first post, #1617 of 4014, motherthread, TT

I got tired of having to look it up, so I put it where I could find it if delurking ever came up again.

I'd gone to a writers conference where Anne Lammott was speaking, and she mentioned having a column at Salon. From there, I clicked on the Table Talk link, and started lurking in various folders. Hi, Agnes Bertiz!

I will say little about 2006, except that I and my family have been the recipient of an outpouring of love and support someone who hasn't had the Buffistas online experience can't even begin to imagine. My gratitude to all of you, and my love, on behalf of my family.

In the new year, I want to travel somewhere besides Mexico

Ooh, ooh, Java cat, I know where: ALASKA!!!

Not that I have strong feelings about the matter or anything.

ION, I just have to say how much fun I'm having trying to figure out which sekrit santa might be mine. Each day, I look for a package. Each day, it's not there. While you might think that would be depressing, you would be wrong! Instead, I'm very much enjoying the growing anticipation. I'm actually having fun seeing others getting their gifts, and ticking their sekrit santas off the list of possibilities. And you totally have until the 12th day of Christmas before you're even late.

That looks all sarcastic and mean, but I really, really mean it sincerely and nice. You know how some of you don't like the way your writing used to be? Unfortunately, this issue continues on for me. I think it's kind of like listening to a recording of your own voice. I hope so.