Not that ita was always right...

ita - Aug 14, 2001 11:59 am (#277 of 2895)

I can't see us having much more than say 15 threads at a generous maxiumum.

Still not processing, and I can't think of anything to say that hasn't been said better already here or in natter (at least as far as I've gotten to catching up there).

Like many I never met ita IRL, but she has such a vivid presence in my mind. I would have liked to have found out if the voice of hers I heard in my head was anything like how she sounded in person.

Nicole, is your profile addy still good?

More from the Roll Your Own Board thread...

DXMachina: I agree with Sophia on the naming issue. The whole enterprise should be buffistas.org. The board is just one part of it (albeit the most important part).

Here's another try at the logo, all kerned, t's & a's checked, smaller org, and a slightly less evil dot: [img:"Buffistas.org Logo"]

Betsy: You can still kern the fs closer together, ditto the i to the s and the s to the t. </backseat driver>

ita: Okay. I wonder if I'm the only one hearing this with a beatbox in the background and seeing Betsy rapping with a backwards baseball cap, Adidas logos, and lots of gold jewelry?

Quite probably.

Oh, these are all such lovely memories!! I'm back home now, so will probably post some more photos on FB, now that I have access.

I started seeing a shrink after joining this board (by which I mean after mostly lurking at TableTalk and delurking at WX and then recloaking and then full-on delurking) and she said "support communities are going to be much more helpful for you than other treatments. We can do the other treatments but a good community will always be there for you even after these issues have passed.

Me: Oh I know.

And I went back to my first delurk and it was to say something to ita, and I remember being so thrilled that she responded. And, you know, tore me a new one.

Raq, that is awesome. Good shrink.

Social workers, in particular, although I think a lot of them are mutants, too, and not the super-powerful kind, a. Don't socialize online and still think it is the way it was when it first came out.

2. Kind of think I do it because I'm crippled and need to take sloppy seconds a lot(Or what a Big Bang Theory fanfic might call "The Glass Menagerie Hypothesis") and maybe it did kind of start that way, but I'm here because I don't find this level of conversation on the street much--if I did "Move!" wouldn't top my fantasies.

I think they also think I have, like, characters I do here(I mean, outside of my writing...they really just don't get it, but they are like that about most activities that don't involve kettle corn and face painting so I don't worry anymore.)

Good shrink, but unclear causality - I needed one for other stuff (father dying, 9/11) not as a result of joining the board.

If life imitated art - as it should - ita's spirit would have passed into her laptop and then into the internet.

I firmly believe this is what happened.