dream of the consortium

• BtVS watcher since: Rented the videotapes for the first season two years back, and have been struggling to catch up ever since.
• Hanging out at the ATPoBtVS Posting board since: Spring 2001
• Origin of posting name: A beautiful short story by Stephen Millhauser
• Age / species / day-job: 30 / Cambridge, MA female of the Irish-Catholic, equal-parts-tweedy-and-hippie, former-vegetarian-and-teetotaller-now-obsessive-carnivore-and-hearty-drinker, non-driving, read-walking-down-the-sidewalk persuasion. Around here, that's a cultural stereotype - close enough to a species, I suppose. Academic researcher/admin with not very much to do at work besides lurk on the board.
• Most memorable BtVS/AtS quote: There are too many to count, but I just loved this tiny moment in The Replacement, after Anya requests that the two Xanders be put back together in the morning so she can get some that night.
  GILES: Uh, uh, we just need to light the candles. Also, we should continue to pretend we heard none of the disturbing sex talk.
  WILLOW: Check. Candles and pretense.
• Favorite philosopher: More aimed toward literature than philosophy - can I answer George Eliot?
• TTMQ: About a 5 - sometimes after I post I wonder if I thought at all
• Strangest thread topic ever posted: I have a mind like a sieve - the real question is whether I can remember any thread topic.
• Coolest thread topic ever posted: As above.
• Why I love this board more than unlife itself: No one in my real life will talk to me about Buffy!! No one!! Well, at least not for hours and hours and hours....