Steph was one of my lifelines in college. If I was freaking out, or needed to get the hell away, she'd say "Come up and see me!" and for a weekend I could escape the epic fail.

And consume astonishingly large amounts of sushi!

SA, I miss you!

DUDE, I GOT DISTRACTED BY THE RESEARCH.

I should say so, what with the husband and all...

SA, I miss you!

I miss you too! I was just looking at photos the other day and thinking about how much I miss those weekends that always fell kind of the same--massive amounts of sushi, trip to the comic book store, trip to Trader Joe's, lots of television and discussion. Those are some of my fondest memories of college, really. I remember meeting your dude before anyone else did! I was like the Special Buffista Envoy of Boy Approval. It was amusing to me.

Mostly, though, I miss being just a drive away. We were a little spoiled.

But I don't even remember a lot of my own history with this board, only that it started when I was a teenager and has dramatically affected the course of my life in so very many ways.

I do! You delurked in Bitches, at WX, having been pointed here by Herself, and you had this cute long-haired photo that was blurry round the edges.

DUDE, I GOT DISTRACTED BY THE RESEARCH.

Yes! The Wesley/Lex crossover story. Huh. Any other single Buffistas out there want to develop a new prize-winning hobby and acquire a hot DH, just offer to cowrite a story with me. The research? It gets pretty distracting.

After ten years in Texas, my husband and I moved to eastern Washington State

Hey there! *high-fives Dana* dry side of Washington represent!

Han shot first

Hell to the YES, Shari_H!

I love the Republicans coming out of the woodwork. If you guys can hang out here without your heads exploding, it makes me fear less for that party.

I'm not sure I'm down with P-C's waffly opinion of my precious semicolon. (I do love the em dash almost as much. Perhaps my true love is for the extremely long and yet equisitely punctuated sentence.) Though everyone should know that pancakes? Golgi.

Hmmm, I could really use a hot DH, but I don't do slash. Fay's plan may not work as well for me.

Una! I just checked the map, and OMG, you're local! Wanna do lunch or something this week before my job starts?

oooh, I shall email you! (this thread *rocks*.)

Cilantro: Yes

Olives: Not if I can bite into them and feel the texture

Double-space after a period: No

Muffaletta: Unknown.

I am also a fan of the semi-colon.

You delurked in Bitches, at WX, having been pointed here by Herself, and you had this cute long-haired photo that was blurry round the edges.

Heh. I knew other people would remember! Wow, long hair. Really really long hair. That was a good while ago.

Also, where's the map?

Hi, I'm shrift. I run the BRQG (which, uh, I need to update, huh?) and I'm pleased that it has lured so many lurkers to the Phoenix.

I started posting at TT around 8 or 9 years ago because of Dana. I also started writing slash because of Dana. You can blame her for that, or possibly give her a toaster. I didn't use my real name at TT because I am on occasion a punk.

I grew up in rural Michigan where I learned to drink and blow up stuff, but relocated to Chicago in 2006. I cook, go to a lot of concerts, watch too much TV, run too many websites, and enjoy shopping for shoes a little too much. I have a B.A. in English but don't do anything with it aside from writing fan fiction on the internets, because the IT industry generally pays better. I'm also an enormous nerd who works for an enormously nerdy internet company, and most days I'm still gobsmacked that they hired me. Sometimes I buy books just so I can enter the data into my LibraryThing.

I don't like musical theater because I have no magic in my soul, only appreciate cilantro in very limited quantity, and tolerate olives in the occasional tapenade.