Kate! I forgot Kate!

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Hi, my name is Bridget and I used to read Buffistas much, much more than I do these days. I've met several of you in person -- even put up Jon B. and band once -- and can only hope that you weren't revolted. ;)

I've followed along since the TT days, but these days tend to read at the end of the day, if that. There are quite a few shows I'm behind on right now, and I usually wait until I've seen some eps before reading, which may take awhile at times.

I used to live in Minneapolis, and am now in Oakland, California. I've been working on a website for an arts nonprofit, which was unable to procure funding for the time being so I'm pretty much a volunteer for now.

I like cilantro, fortunately since Bay Area Mexican food tends to use a lot of it. I like olives, and am disappointed that no one seems to want my opinion about sorbet vs. ice cream (the former is my go-to dessert).

We did have someone who had briefly posted here live in the Antarctic, but she never posted from there. One more of my McGill college friends (holla holla to Shambles, representing in the hizzouse of Montreal) did a fake-Mars thing there. That might be the closest we get.

Hi to all lurky or semi-lurky types who have become unlurky, including SA and BridgetS.

(There are a lot of real names on here. I've been using my handle for over ten years, so thought I should use it here for ease of cross-recognition. I briefly dropped the 'in-Training' bit since I qualified as a teacher, but it returns now that I am a fledgling academic. Will have to decide whether it goes away post-MA, or stays around to encourage me towards that elusive PhD.)

I have not visited anyone here, being too much of a newcomer - which is a bit sad! I have many friends from other Buffy-centric places, who I appreciate muchly, so I'm loving the stories of how you all met.

Seriously? I bow down...all the way down...to your courage.

Well, I didn't know I was dyslexic until really late. I knew I was dyspraxic (I think in the US that's called non-verbal learning disability), but I had never got round to formal testing. Then they tested me before I started my M.A., and said I was dyslexic too. Made a whole lot of sense, especially of how slowly I read and how tired it makes me, and how I can't structure essays (I have software that does that for me now!), and my eternal procrastination habits, etc etc etc. But the dyspraxia is my real killer. It made me terrified of maths. I still avoid statistics, although they would help my research. They are evil and wrong and scary.

I think the real-name thing was a TT relic, though I'm not sure. I kind of wish I used a better psued now, but it is what it is.

I have a pretty standard version of dysgraphia and a minor variation on dyslexia, which is really deeply fun given how much my disciplines incorporate reading and writing. But I learned compensation tools really early on, so that even though 3 out of five times I make errors when I type or write, I go back and read to auto-correct and usually can catch them. When I don't, well, someone usually tells me. The dysgraphia is more frustrating than the dyslexia, though. Not being able to accurately transcribe what I'm thinking drives me insane every single day.

and the governership of Illinois.

I love that this is included in your list. I figure we'll adopt the metric system around the time we get flying cars.

The strongest argument I heard for using the serial comma is that it gives items in a series equal weight.

I think the "and" gives the last item quite enough weight. Nobody else gets an "and."

Of course, the loss of various extra letters mostly came from Noah Webster, who was deliberately trying to create a leaner and specifically American English. You gotta love the godlike power of the early dictionary makers.

The retention of feet and inches mainly shows that there are some things you have to declare by fiat, because public opinion is generally an ass. These days, proposing the metric system would be branded as socialist and dangerously French. Also, didn't Hitler use the metric system?

Hello all former lurkers, of all political flavors!

I haven't had any buffistae stay with me, unless you count Amyth falling asleep on my couch. Now that I have an apartment with a guest room that should change. I do live right next door to amyth, which is lovely, as well as near smonster and within partying distance of amych and darth. Both meara and SA have been by, but I believe they've always stayed with amyth and/or smonster.

I've gone by Cincinnati a number of times, without ever visiting, as I was always traveling with my parents on our way to Michigan. They were old and didn't really get the whole invisible internet friends thing. However, I'll be heading up to MI by myself in the future, and one of those times I'll suck it up for the drive through Ohio so I can make a Cinci stop, if the Ohioistas don't mind.

one of those times I'll suck it up for the drive through Ohio so I can make a Cinci stop, if the Ohioistas don't mind.

Mind?? On the contrary -- you'd better stop!

Since I can't match numbers on with whom I've stayed, or who has stayed with me, I won't make a list.

I will add, however, for the lurkers' benefit, that I turned my keys over to smonster to stay in my apartment while I was away without every having met her face-to-face.