I'm in my late thirties and I'm going through a very difficult divorce with my four year old son. I used to be a magazine editor but I've been working for a law firm lately. I'd like to get back to writing but I'm not sure how to make that happen. I have no idea how I'm going to manage single-parenthood; I worry how the divorce will affect my son. Not sure if I'm going to be able stay in San Francisco. I've wandered over from the the Divorce thread and the Buffy Quotes thread catches my attention. This show is funny! I should watch it. Betsy is intimidatingly cool and smart and together.
Jayne: Here's a little concept I been workin' on. Why don't we shoot her first? Wash: It is her turn.
'Serenity'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
DavidS - Oct 15, 2014 6:33:45 am PDT #2365 of 3094
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
-t - Oct 15, 2014 6:43:14 am PDT #2366 of 3094
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I saw this URL in something about saving Firefly and came to see what was what. Found my people.
Fred Pete - Oct 15, 2014 8:03:49 am PDT #2367 of 3094
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'm almost 40, living with my partner and our cat (singular). It's 9/11, and I can't deal with the news coverage that my partner insists on watching. I get on the computer and check out the boards where I've been lurking for months. It's finally time to start talking.
lisah - Oct 15, 2014 8:10:53 am PDT #2368 of 3094
Punishingly Intricate
What year did the Buffy thread start on TT?
Tom Scola - Oct 15, 2014 8:12:33 am PDT #2369 of 3094
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Buffy went on the air in March, 1997, and the TT thread started in May.
erikaj - Oct 15, 2014 8:22:58 am PDT #2370 of 3094
Always Anti-fascist!
Hi. I'm...not as different as I would like to be, but I have better hair(and sadly a worse wheelchair) since I joined the board. After a few years, I could get my stories published, ignore the crazy peopleor fight with them and actually post some of the curse words that can be mainstays in my spoken speech.(That year, I was really concerned about how much to let gimptitude influence what I posted...was "coming out" the right way to go?)
Tom Scola - Oct 15, 2014 8:45:38 am PDT #2371 of 3094
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
OK, so now I had to go back and read the first TT thread from the archives. There are only a few posts in 1997, and traffic was pretty slow through 1998. Discussion didn't really pick up until S3, and finally there's a burst of traffic at the end of S3. I'm looking for the first posts of active Buffistas I can recognize, and it seems a bunch of us all started posting within a few days of each other:
Dana D. - 07:27 am PST - Nov 25, 1998 - #442 of 4014
(I assume this is our Dana?)
Vortex - 01:34 pm PST - Feb 11, 1999 - #787 of 4014
Katie P - 01:29 pm PST - Jun 1, 1999 - #1594 of 4014
David J. Schwartz - 10:19 am PST - Jun 3, 1999 - #1647 of 4014
Holli M. - 12:54 pm PST - Jun 3, 1999 - #1649 of 4014
Tom Scola - 06:49 am PST - Jun 4, 1999 - #1678 of 4014
Madrigal Costello - 01:52 pm PST - Jun 10, 1999 - #1793 of 4014
Jessica - Oct 15, 2014 8:56:36 am PDT #2372 of 3094
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I think we should delurk as the people we were when we joined the board.
How happy I am that I am no longer that person, let me count the ways!
Atropa - Oct 15, 2014 9:20:47 am PDT #2373 of 3094
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I think we should delurk as the people we were when we joined the board.
Ha!
Hi, I'm Jilli. I just started working at Microsoft as a content editor, and it seems like a pretty good company to work for. I'm a goth, and I run the Gothic Miss Manners site. I have idle dreams of becoming a published author, and I make a lot of jokes about eventually starting a cult. Also, I take advice from a fanged stuffed bunny who will one day rule the world.
Zenkitty - Oct 15, 2014 9:46:34 am PDT #2374 of 3094
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm in my late 30s, just got out of a relationship, lonely, depressed, and broke, and looking for Buffy people. Found the Board at random. Not sure how come all these people seem to know each other, but they're funny and smart, and reading about their lives in progress is better than a novel. And now the Real Actual Tim Minear is talking to us and everyone's chipping in to bring somebody named "Nilly" to the US for a tour, and this all seems pretty cool, so I guess I'll delurk.