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.

Sail, yes still good. I had to check which one I had in there!

Do any NYCers (past or present) remember who hosted the watching party that ita came to? Not the first one, that was Fiona. This was a guy and maybe in Brooklyn, but not Scola, right? I would have remembered if it was Scola, wouldn't I?

Joe Boucher? David Rothschild? Joey...something? (Not a NYCer, just throwing out names.)

Aillean, I don't really remember you, but your story about your sister's death made me tear up. I am so sorry for your family's loss.

I am so jealous of all the F2F memories. I only ever made it to the first one in Chicago (which was crazy fun!). I met a few other Buffistas here and there, but I never had the pleasure of meeting ita. And now I never will. I hate that.

Maybe David. I seem to think he stopped posting soon after the event.

I think ita must have been in town for work?

Fear not, Callaluna--I still have pictures of you at that first Chicago F2F. :)

Though I just tried to look through all my photos and jeez, I need a better way of organizing them. Not only are some of them not in iPhoto, others are in there three times, some are way out of chronological order (because I scanned them, or got them from someone else after the fact), some were important at the time but should be deleted...and as far as I could tell, only two of them were of ita! I know I must have some hardcopies then, that I didn't scan...