We should have some sort of ritualized celebration involving lights to ensure that the days start getting longer.

Like what, setting fire to Joe Lieberman?

I am intrigued by this idea and would like to subscribe to your literature.

Did anyone else hear this in Manuel's voice, from Fawlty Towers?

Yes!

We played at being Frodo et al when I was in elementary school. I guess after the Bakshi movie? There was a lot of sort of LARPing Wonder Woman before that. But surely all kids do that sort of thing, no?

I'm pretty sure my first and only act of fannish geekiness was posting on the TT Buffy threads.

In my head, geek doesn't have any social connotations--it just indicates an above-average interest and knowledge. So I might say msbelle geeks out about period architecture and design. You can be a dork without any redeeming anything--it just means you're silly. And nerds are probably bookish, probably shorter on conventional social skills, but there's a nerd code of conduct too.

In my files, anyway.

I'm pretty sure my first and only act of fannish geekiness was posting on the TT Buffy threads.

You're treasurer for an online Buffy-identifying community how many years after Buffy went off the air?

I don't think I am quite as geeky as all y'all, but am more geeky than msbelle and flea.

I was geeky about non-geek-typical things, though. For example, I kept methodically lists of soap opera plots over the years, and can practically diagram a family tree of As The World Turns, Guiding Light, and Days of Our Lives, and can follow most other soap opera conversations.

I also kept lists of all my classmates middle names and birthdates as I found them out (although not by asking, only by investigating!

My BFF in 7th and 8th grade and I wrote an epic soap opera/Mary Sue thing starring everyone in our school, with aliases. I came up with the plots and she wrote the actual stories. We also liked to play games/make lists of what color/number/animal/etc people reminded us off.

I also kept an extremely detailed, for lack of a better word, gossip journal at that time. I knew everything that happened, who was dating who, who liked who. I used to keep notes in a code on my assignment pad,

In retrospect, I was very strange. I think I wanted to be Miss Marple.

You're treasurer for an online Buffy-identifying community how many years after Buffy went off the air?

That's not fannish! That's community!

That's not fannish! That's community!

You keep telling yourself that.

Please.

Oh, I remembered one geeky thing. I kept a diary in the dwarf-runes from LOTR for a few months when I was 16.

Sophia, when I was in 7th grade my best friend and I drew catalogs of clothes we wanted to have. There was a lot of neon (it being 1984); luckily highlighters worked well for those colors.