(okay, a lot of us are thinking this, so I might as well)

it's need

its need.

runs away

Hello, darling lurkers! It is so much fun to meet you! I'm Andrea, sometimes called Andi, or Windi. I think I might be able to join Sumiko's coalition. Askye introduced me to the Buffistas just as the transition from WX was happening, after I met her and Daniel at the Hellmouth Cafe chat room. That was at least seven years ago, as Daniel and I did the long distance relationship thing for three years then met in person. We hit it off so well that we decided enough was enough, so I moved from Arizona to Minnesota to live with him. That was four years ago. We have two cats, one of whom is a female Orange Cat, a bit fluffy, called Sammie. The other is the infamous Harvey, a blue-point part Siamese, who often sits on Daniel or on my wrists as we are posting, and purrs his little heart out.

SlartibartfastSLBNRLB, you have no idea how happy it makes me that you and askye are so happy together. I wish you both the best, and hope all the right things happen so the two of you can spend more time in arm's reach.

Any right-thinking person would agree that it's Ammitch and Ammith.

But of course.

I'm pro-cilantro and serial commas. Never tried muffaletta but based on descriptions would love it, especially with olives. I'm so pro-olive that once when I was a little girl, my family was eating dinner at a restaurant, and I asked for olives. The waitress brought me a plate full of them, and I happily ate them all. Haven't tried Fernet, no way to tell if I'd like it or not, but I'm willing to try it. My one true whiskey is whatever is on sale. Beer? Tastes too much like beer.

Hi, I'm davers, but answer to bj. This is a terrific thread, it's like having a posting safety net. Or training wheels.

I share a house in Central Florida with two cats, neither of which is orange. I started following BTVS on TT and followed the migration to WX and then to the b.org board, where I've lurked since. The board moves so fast, it's always been too daunting to try to hop on mid-spin, especially since anything I might add has usually been said...and said well.

You are an amazing group of people, the source of some of the biggest laughs and the most eclectic information in my life...in no other venue would I have learned, among others subjects, about teabagging, corsets, slash, or the intense and incomprehensible anti-cilantro constituency. I'm a better person for knowing these things.

I just re-watched Buffy S1 – S7 and have begun Angel again, currently at S2. Season 5 promises to be especially exciting because I have not seen all episodes, so there will be New Angel in my future.

I'm pro-olives and muffulettas, ambivalent about the serial comma, and inordinately fond of the ellipsis. I've never tried Fernet and have learned not to click Buffista links when accompanied by a warning.

Welcome davers.

Hi, davers! I share your... fondness for the ellipsis. Welcome!

It's so cool to meet these lurkers who have been on the board way longer than I have!

And I agree with everyone else who chimed in about it, olives are wrong it's really interesting to learn new things about people I've known for so long.

I'm anti-muffaletta due to a serious dislike of olives. *shudder*

I'm pro-cilantro (or corriander) and was trained out of the serial comma in journalism class in high school.

But where do we stand on the one space or two, post-period? I was trained in two spaces in grad school and have stood firmly by the habit, but lately, I've been hearing mutterings of it being as outdated as organdy aprons.

I was trained in two spaces in grad school and have stood firmly by the habit, but lately, I've been hearing mutterings of it being as outdated as organdy aprons.

Oh my good god, NO. This is a leftover from typewriters, babe. NO need for it now. I take out all those extra spaces, every manuscript I edit, and grumble about it the whole time.

I was originally trained in two spaces, but have used only one for a couple of decades because of electronic typesetting.