My intention when I started my line journal was for it to be a record for me and me alone; the decision to publish it came later. As such, I haven't explained any of my references to people on and off the line, and I can see how that could make life miiiighty confusing for everyone who isn't me. So, to that end...

parents - yeah, I have a few of those. My mother is usually either 'Mom' or 'Momma'. I don't recall writing about my father, but he's a geek too.

friends from home - Kendra was one of my really close friends all through high school. Joe was... heh, Joe was a lot of things, but for the purposes of this journal, he was 1) my quasi-pseudo-coulda-been boyfriend, and 2) the person entirely responsible for me getting obsessed with Star Wars in the first place.

friends from school - I actually know some (comparatively) normal people at school, and I think most of them ended up understanding the line (to some extent) by the time it ended. Among the ones I mentioned: Jaime (really good friend who visited the line twice and had been planning on staying over one night); Paige (roommate whose only reservation about the line was that it meant we wouldn't get to hang out before she left the city); Diane and Samantha (suitemates - I think the line weirded both of them out a bit, but Samantha was at least very amused by my costume); Stella (dorky and proud of it - she introduced me to the NYU sci-fi club and started me on the path to geeked-out-ness in the first place); Sarah (met her through First Friday, then determined that she really rocks and got to be friends-friends); Denise (one of my coworkers, with whom I also had class this semester - we tease each other a lot, but it's all good); Chris (another coworker); roommate!Sarah and the suitemates!Sarah (my three current flatmates, all of whom have never seen Star Wars and some of whom are insufferable bitches).

friends online - there are a great many of those. The majority of them, I met either through StarMoon (a Star Wars/Sailor Moon crossover RPG, of sorts) or the Star Wars Chicks board at Nightly.net, or through a mutual friend from one or the other. Generally a gutterbrained group of maniacs, they include Cat, Bunny, Lauren3, Smitha, Suzi, Emily, and Miggie. One more internet-related note - Kairi-chan (Kairiku) is my main (deeply neglected) StarMoon character. Two years ago I set her up with Anakin, and although I'd hoped to have them broken up in time for AOTC, I (in my fundamental laziness) haven't yet. Oops.

nyu - just a couple references to explain. Gallatin is the individualized study program I'm in; Tisch is the performing arts school. I'm in a scholars program (coordinated by Deirdre, the assistant dean) that requires community service each year, and I was able to use the line as mine ('cause everybody rocks). Surprise Surprise is a housewares store across from my dorm; Due Amici and Emerald Planet are restaurants (pizza and wraps, respectively) near campus that I have a slight tendency to eat at obsessively.

organizations - not too many... First Friday is a performing arts series I helped coordinate, but missed the last event because of line recovery. GAF is the Gallatin Arts Festival, and Y2Y is Youth 2 Youth, a drug-free youth program; crazy people who are infinitely comfortable in both groups.

and last, but nowhere near least...
line people - too many to comment on each (especially since that becomes apparent through reading the journal, don't it?), but... Alan, Amit, Ben (who has a friend also named Ben), Byron, Christina/Chris, Claire, Cullen, Cybergosh (Chris), Dana, [crazy] Dave, [Yoda] Dave, Ed, Food Guy (who, it turns out, is named Rob), Germain, Gwen, James, Jamey, [Shoeless] Jason/Jay, [Vassar] Jason/Jay, [Venom] Jason/Jay, Joe (not Joe-from-high-school, a different one), [citizen] John, John G, Jon S, Juan, Justen, Krissy, Laura, Mario, [cute vegan] Mark, [goofy] Mark, [tall British] Mark (there's also [redheaded British] Mark, but I don't recall mentioning him), Matt, Michele, Mike (Winnie), Orin (Cailinn), Rick, Rob (Jedi Rob), Sam, Spell, Steve (there's two - all references are to Steve L), Suzanne, Tim (Qui-Gon Tim), Tim Harrod, Tom, Tori, Victor, Viktor, Vincent, Wendy, Will, and Zippy. (And yes, your brain has my permission to explode now.)

last updated 6.4.02

As with my people references, I realize I've mentioned a few events/places/things that no one else is likely to get. So...

the Mike/Jersey joke - I have a cousin (and I'll give you one guess at his name) who's a few years older than me. One summer when he was probably somewhere in his midteens, he told several of the cousins a story about a girl he'd met at school. When he asked where she was from, she said, "New Jersey," to which he replied jokingly, "Oh, what exit?" and consequently got severely glared at.

Watkins Glen - My parents (in addition to being big geeks) are big auto racing fans. When I was younger (mostly between ten and fifteen) we would go to the racetrack at Watkins Glen in the southern tier of New York State and spend the weekend camping with a group of people they'd met there. The men were pretty much all near my dad's age, reasonably smart, witty as shit, and were among the most benevolently perverted people I've met in my entire life. Got used to lots of borderline-sexist jokes and dirty references, and I've since acquired the ability to stop being a somewhat-easily-insulted feminist on command and just laugh at what are (usually) insanely funny sexual jokes.

Jedi Council (JC) - is my standard name to refer to the message boards at TheForce.Net (usually the NYC area FanForce board). Not actually the name I use in real life, but it's nice and short and convenient for lazy old me.

various cryptic school references - The bottom line is that the spring 2002 semester really, really sucked for me. I had problems in general with concentrating on school and started getting behind (moreso in some classes than others); in early April, on the day I'd appointed as Get My Ass In Gear Day, my grandmother died, which threw the remainder of the semester into the metaphorical shitter. I ended up taking an incomplete in Molecular/Cell Biology because I'd missed two of three exams and couldn't possibly get caught up (the appointment I kept referring to on May 7 was in regards to the incomplete) and just barely finishing my work for my other two classes (Web/Database Programming and Intro to C). (And for the record, I don't at all credit the line with my less than stellar grades - I'd've done just as badly without it, except that I'd probably still be miserable about it.)

last updated 5.30.02