Dani! From the frozen centre! So nice to have representation from the middle!

I was just thinking the other day, as I work a lot with people east of me up to Manitoba, that it would be very weird for me to live in say, Ontario, because people would be west of me. If I ever went right to the east coast, I would be so confused by the ocean being on the wrong side.

Anyway, hi!

I am Bev WRT to cats v. dogs. Walkies seem constricting and stressful to me. And both my cats (most of the cats I've had, really) are openly affectionate and not aloof at all. In fact, one is quite possessive. Of everybody. She alone should get scritches, or so she believes.

And hi Dani! I think I've seen your pixels before, but it's been a while.

Dani! Good to hear from you!

Did you know that Nora(aka RahRah) is having a baby? She's due on December 15th, which is way too long to wait not long now.

Hey Abby & smonster!

It's been a very long, long while. These days I seem to hang out mostly on LJ, where Liese told me about the Delurking thread. Seeing everyone pop up here has inspired me to try to come back more often, at least to the Great White Way & Natter.

OMG! I did NOT know that about RahRah. Congratulations to her & her partner, and to the auntie-to-be!

Dani! It's so nice to see you here!

hello lurkers!

And, to completely spoil Hec's day, I saw this in Kos the other day:

If humans fought wars like cats, the troops would stop every 30 seconds to lick themselves. This would make for very interesting news footage.

Hi, Dani!

The female cats I've had have been various levels of affectionate, from "just being in the same room as someone is a social interaction" to lap kitty and generous with purrs. The one male cat I've had, is something else altogether. It sometimes seems to me that he thinks it is his mission in life to heal the hurts of the whole world with his purring. He expects to be held, and skritched, and snuggled all the time.

Hello Maggie!

I am in love with your cats!

Also hello again Dani!

where Liese told me about the Delurking thread.

Yay!

The month is almost over so I guess I should pop in before it's too late. I'm not a lurker, just a longtime Buffista who goes through extended periods of near-, sometimes total-silence. The phenomenon is not new. Perhaps going to a college almost entirely centered around discussion (at the time we had one required paper per year; I took two tests in four years, both pass/fail & which we were required to take as many times as needed to pass. Passed both on first attempt.) was a mistake. But I met a lot of great people, & it led to my marriage and career, so as far as mistakes go it was a good one.

I started posting on Table Talk when the monthly book group was reading Absalom, Absalom! The guy leading the discussion thought I was putting too much emphasis on race in the novel. Ten years later I still don't know what he was talking about. Anyway, I migrated over to the Buffy thread. (I don't think there was a separate Angel discussion.)

During the second season of Angel I noted the resemblance of Lorne, known to us at the time (and the way I still think of him) as GGG, the Gay Green Guy, to Losers' Lounge singer Sean Altman. It turned out that a few other posters were Losers' Lounge fans & eventually we went to the Roxy Music LL. I think that was the first F2F. msbelle was there, along with Misha, & Martha C. There were a couple others, too. Jesse, I think. A couple weeks later we had the first episode-centered get-together at Fiona's.

My big news is that we adopted a baby this summer: Thelonious Sorel Boucher. (Cf. my bio in the David Smay-edited Lost In The Grooves. It's searchable so you can see it on Amazon, but you should buy the book.) And the punchline, spoiler-fonted for dramatic effect: the birthmother named him Angelus. Not a complete coincidence. My wife mentioned my love of Buffy & Angel & my Buffista friendships in our profile, and birthmom is also a fan.

A belated congrats to Nilly & her very, very lucky husband. I'm sure there are other belated congrats & condolences to send out but I should probably get back to work.