(1) Are you guys now married on Second Life? and (2) is there fiancedom happening of which I'm oblivious, or are y'all just thinking about it?

Second Life officially has partnerships rather than marriages but most people treat partnerships equal to marriage. Although some people don't consider you properly married unless you've had a ceremony. But personally we consider ourselves married in the game. I probably should have said he's my Second Life Husband Now Real Boyfriend, but I kind liked the symmetry of Boyfriend in their twice.

As for real life, we're not engaged but we're really sure that's what we want but we're not ready to take that step yet. This upcoming visit will be 10 days and that's the longest we'll have been together in person. He lives 1300 miles away and I won't be able to get up to Vermont until next summer. When he's here we're going to figure some things out including trying to plan when I can move up there, but the economy and job availability will play a part in that.

(I always mentally prounounce it "Slartibartfast".)

I do to!

Welcome Zar!

Cool! Actual former lurkers delurking!

Hello to all the recently delurked! And hello again and good to see you to people who formerly participated but STUFF got in the way.

I'm sumi - short for Sumiko. My real name. Because I was on TT at Salon where the RULES said to use your real name. Clearly, SOME PEOPLE don't follow the rules.

I delurked during the great post-"Fool for Love" rise in Spikeloost.

I live in northern Illinois - and I work at a university. (It's Homecoming today. The rain stayed away for the parade - but I bet it rains during the game. And I'm working ticket sales for the dance tonight. Joy. My own fault - I volunteered.)

I have two cats: a blue tabby named Ivan (short-haired) and a medium-length scruffy haird brown tortoiseshell tabbey named Tanuki.

I think those of us on the b.org who have unique names should form our own club.

The monster of FB games has eaten me so I seem to be spending less time here and more time over there farming, fighting dragons and making millions as a mafioso.

However, I am fairly often in Boxed Set, SPN, spoilers lite, Spike's Bitch and Natter. More reading than posting in Bitches nad Natter. I have visited Gaming and was more regularly in the Premium Cable thread when True Blood was on. I also am often (for me) in Cable Drama and Procedurals. I read Literary and the two fanfic threads and have, in the past year or so, spent more time in real Spoilers than I would have believed.

Hi, lurkers. Good to see we're not talking to hear ourselves talk, though we would, obviously.

Hi, I'm Una, known in many other places on the intarwebs as Prophet Kristy (it's a long story). I've been around since sometime around when Firefly's cancellation was announced, when I kicked myself for not looking for Firefly fans on the web earlier. Last year the cat and I moved to south central Washington state where I teach biology at a community college. I really really miss western Oregon where I went to graduate school and hope to get back there.

I'm a semi-lurker who has no idea how you all keep up with the pace of things around here, which is one reason (besides my currently limited TV repertoire) that I'm not in many threads. There's only so much time in a day, and I really enjoy sleeping. Beyond the time constraints, I am reluctant to post because you all seem to have such a rapport and I'm not sure how to fit into it. Also, I don't think I'm nearly as funny. Every once in a while my opinionated bitch side takes over, though. I mainly hang in Firefly, Heroes, Buffyverse, Jossverse, and Minearverse.

I'm addicted to this place because you all are so charming and witty and smart. Also, all my fandoms are represented somehow, so I can get news here without expending a lot of time and energy searching for it in eleventy-billion places.

I'm enjoying learning more about everyone in this thread! Even though I shouldn't be spending the time reading it and should be grading papers! (why did I get a job at an institution with no grad students?)

In conclusion, the serial comma is a moral imperative. Semicolons also rock my world.

Una! I've posted with you before, I know! Probably in Firefly. Here, let me rock your world: ;;;;;;;;

Here, let me help:

The serial comma is elegant, necessary, and useful; I love it.

How's that?

oooh, Amy. Talk punctuation to me!

I feel like there's a "show me your dangling participle" joke there, but I'll restrain myself.

Because I was on TT at Salon where the RULES said to use your real name. Clearly, SOME PEOPLE don't follow the rules.

I remember there being (and maybe it was only for a while) the codicil that if you can't/won't use YOUR real name at least use A real name...

Which is how I picked Trudy Booth...

Which is an old joke from when we studied Wordsworth in High School...

And what could be more Buffista than that?

And what could be more Buffista than that?

Somehow wedding it to a serial comma?