Culmination

A long time ago (2002), in a galaxy far, far away (my living room), I was vegging in front of the TV after work, channel surfing. I stopped on a scene where a child in a cage was being lifted into the air, and in the next scene the child was gone. I was a little confused as to what happened to the kid, and the next episode of the show was on next, so I decided to keep watching. That decision changed my life. That sounds dramatic, but it's true.

The show was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and was in reruns on FX, and I devoured the episodes. I wanted to know more, so looked online for resources and ended up joining the Watcher's Diary (WD), the forums at Buffy Guide. It wasn't the talk about the show that kept me there long after the show went off the air. It was the people. They made me laugh, they challenged my thinking, they became my friends. I don't think I can put into words what they mean to me, but they know, because they feel the same way. Suffice it to say I wouldn't be the same person I am today without them.

So, six years to the month from when I registered with the WD, I'm finally going to meet in real life some of the people I have only known online. If I look over at my sidebar, fifteen of those people I know from the WD. Someday I hope to meet all of them. For now, I'm just really, really excited to be meeting some of them. I'm so giddy, I can hardly believe it's only a week away.