Buffistaversary: June 2, 1999
first post, #1617 of 4014, motherthread, TT, Is Anyone Watching BTVS? by Agnes Bertiz

I'd gone with a friend to a poetry conference in Charlotte, guests Li Young Lee and Anne LaMott (and a troupe of Native American dancers in full regalia). A main feature of Annie's talk was her ASL interpreter. She messed with him by throwing random words and phrases into her speech, full stopping to watch him, and thanking him. It was fun. She mentioned Table Talk so I looked it up and tapped a few of the threads until I ran across Agnes' Buffy thread. Ta-da!

I was here for the "too many Davids" discussion where Dana named all three Davids present, and Hec and Knut adjusted their names to suit. (Hah! Inadvertant rhyme. Keeping it)

Like Laura said, this place has been a haven and a refuge, a source of solace in bad times, and a source of courage and light in other bad times, a place of friendship and hero worship and joy. (Fist to heart) You have my love and loyalty always. Ginger said she watched the people in the threads having lives and doing things for months before she decloaked. That Buffistas helped her get through chemo and she felt she knew us before she stopped being a lurker and joined us.

Aw, man, I wanted some chips so I took myself over to the vending machine and selected some along with a KitKat and a diet coke because if I'm going to indulge why not overdo it but the machine couldn't take payment because it couldn't reach the internet. Alas.

In short, wish I had a root

I just had a weird thing happen where a guy who appeared to be a Mormon missionary knocked at my door and asked if I knew any neighbors who spoke Spanish. He also used the phrase "track down," which put me on guard. Are there missionary assignments that specifically proselytize to Spanish speakers only? Or is the LDS now looking for immigrants to rat out to ICE? (Sorry, but Prop 8 used up any benefit of the doubt I might extend to that religion.)

I mean... I know missionaries study other languages to better be missionaries. When the Olympics were in SLC they had a whole bunch of volunteers translators because of it. [link]

So it could be legit.

That is weird, Matt. I, too, would have been suspicious.

Guys. Husband signed an offer letter on Monday that was contingent on several years' contract coming through to the company... and he just found out it did! OMG. Relief doesn't even describe it. He starts in a week.

I can only release half the job~ma, though, because my ass is still unemployed.

But everything has gone from ever increasing degree of tilt and closer to capsizing back to upright and, if not moving steadily forward yet, at least upright and not leaking.

P.H.E.W.

Yay Jen! That’s so good!!

Matt I would’ve really wondered if it was ICE or the proud boy’s or some shit.

Guys. Husband signed an offer letter on Monday that was contingent on several years' contract coming through to the company... and he just found out it did! OMG. Relief doesn't even describe it. He starts in a week.

Excellent!

Congrats, JenP! Relieved for y'all to have that come through!

That is weird, Matt. A know a guy who did his mission somewhere that was primarily Spanish speaking but "tracking down" Spanish speakers does seem deeply sus. Could be sketchy missionary, could be ICE or someone less official trying to look relatively benign.

Yay Jen!

I'm pretty sure this guy wasn't a Proud Boy, he looked like a Mormon missionary and was polite. But the way ICE is currently being run I wouldn't put it past them to recruit preppy Aryan-looking College Republicans and put them in dress shirts and backpacks to search for Latino households door-to-door and avoid tipping people off.