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Post by Fluffy on Mar 20, 2009 14:28:52 GMT -5
When did we all grow up so much?! It's amazing to hear what you are all studying now, trying to remember if these were things that interested you when I met you, in several cases eight years ago...! Not surprised to know that Koko is still stacking up the degrees, of course, but Sarah, studying in Ireland? That's awesome!
I still keep up with a few of you on Facebook (not well; it's been a little crazy here for a long time, which is hopefully changing now), but those of you who haven't looked me up, please do.
I'm still in Iowa, where I bought a bookshop in 2004 and then started having all kinds of horrible problems (tornadoes, floods, health issues), which is when I stopped doing the house comp. (Koko came to visit like a day after the tornado, so she can tell you how wonky it was around here.) Then suddenly, last year, a ton of things started going amazingly well and now I carry toys as well as books (puppets, board games, and just two days ago I started carrying tinkertoys ). I bought (and moved my first store into) my second bookshop in January 2009. Still have to update the shop's website with pics and details of the store's new, larger location, but our website is www.thehauntedbookshop.com
You know what's really weird? I think I learned management from you lot No seriously, I find myself thinking of my employee team the same way I learned to work with new members, mods, and deputy heads here. Sorting things into houses is still a favourite game around the shop, too, and a lot of the books I routinely recommend to people are books you recommended to me or told me about.
So I'm curious, how did TD affect you, in the long term?
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Sarah
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Post by Sarah on Mar 25, 2009 14:44:04 GMT -5
I know. Ireland was a massive step, and incredibly difficult at first, but here I am, 6 months later and I wouldn't have had it any other way. If ever any of you feeling like hitting up Ireland, you have a place to stay How did TD affect me? Wow. I can't even begin to put it into words, but you know me, so I'll try. TD was a separate world within my world. When I needed an escape, a few friendly words, company, laughs, ANYthing, I turned to you lot. You know how people always say "I grew up in Ohio" or "I grew up on St Charles Street" or "I grew up in that yellow house over there?" Yeah, well I grew up with you guys. Here, on TD. I knew from the start that I loved law, but after conversations with many of you in the Leaky Cauldron, I realized it was what I wanted to study, what I wanted to become. Because of you, I envisioned my future, and that future included things you guys put into my head - politics, philosophy, law, etc. You guys have bettered me as a student, as a friend, and as a person. Not to mention ya'll fueled my geeky nerdish side - my love for and knowledge of books, music, games, EVERYthing flourished at mere suggestions from friends like you. Also, I often want to kidnap people in knapsacks filled with socks and Belgian chocolate, and take them to dungeons with bouncy castles, but that could just be me. En - I facebook stalk you. It's actually referred to as "creeping," because I'm always acting the creeper and checking up on yours and Kurt's life. I want so badly to visit!
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Post by superstitious13 on Apr 26, 2009 13:46:12 GMT -5
Holy crap. Jessica (superstitious13) here. I don't think anyone would remember me. I dont even know why I thought about this place but on some random chance I did...It's been yyyeaaarrrss... My email account got hacked years ago and I had to change everything. I graduated high school and am about to graduate college with a bachelors of fine arts concentration in graphic design. I think the last time I was on here I was on here I was about to graduate. and even then it was more to see who was still here. I was scrolling through the members page and I still recognized a ton of people. I miss it. and it makes me sad that i drifted away from something i was so immersed in. Sarah is right, You all totally fueled my geeky nerdy side. You gave me a community to be myself and explore my writing abilities. You definitely improved my vocabulary
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Post by nancy on May 11, 2009 23:36:04 GMT -5
Helloo all! it's nice I guess, to see people checking/writing on this, every now and then speaking of studying... I changed my major to chemical engineering last month... yes I was 3 years into college but whatever... I was lucky enough to lose a single semester, meaning I'll graduate in 5 years instead of the customary 4-and-a-half. Mexico's been all crazy lately, what with swine flu and everything... we were out of school for around 10 days, K-8'ers for even longer. Finals and everything were delayed, some exchange programs canceled because of people's fears... which sucks.
I miss this place. You'll always be the first people I online spoke to, still the only ones I didn't know in *real life* with whom I spoke on a regular basis. I probably improved my english, and who knows, my... intercultural awareness? I learned a lot here, and it was great to have found this place when I did.
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Post by Zicdeh on May 17, 2009 23:16:40 GMT -5
Wow, it feels good to be back! Some of you might remember me- some of you might remember seeing me around. It has been a very long time but time to time I still check back here to see who's kicking!
My profile's assertion that I live in Australia is no longer correct- late last year I decided almost spontaneously to defer my last year of university study and move to South Korea to become an elementary school teacher. That was 6 months ago and it's paying off pretty well so far!
This was the first forum of any kind I joined, way back in 2002. It's nice to see that there are still familiar faces around that haven't forgotten this place.
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Post by KoNeko on Jul 12, 2009 9:09:46 GMT -5
Wow. It's been a year since I posted here. Shame on me.
I do miss you all. It's wonderful to see that so many of you have gone on to college and are already graduating! I'm so proud. It's weird, because when I joined TD I was a few years older than some of you (I think I was like what, a 2nd year law student or something and most of you were at some stage of high scool?) and all this time I've felt like the older sister, watching you guys grow up through your words here.
I can't express how much TD has affected my life. A vibrant community with imaginative and intelligent young people? More more could I ask for? I can't even remember how I stumbled upon it, but it was when we still had the old TD1. Then there was the Yule Ball and there was a bouncy castle and Sands and I had crunch bars and Joan Rivers was harassing everyone. Ha.
Hell, I haven't thought about that for years now. But yeah, it was here that I really feel at home, at least ideologically speaking (I think I'm too old for my back to be comfortable in that hammock in the Hufflepuff common room now). It was here that I picked up my interests in minority rights (mostly through the LGBT discussions we've had, and things about first impressions), my ecclectic taste in music that I still have, my interest in excessive overanalysis of everything and how to make dorky jokes using big words. (I can't believe I can still remember how to do the shortcut for the eye-rolling smiley.) So yeah. This might be a few years late in coming, but thank you. Thanks for everything that I've gained from being a member of this family.
But yeah. For an update - I didn't make it to Canada. I ended up staying in Australia, doing my PhD here. I'm looking into political philosophy, which is really interesting and exciting for me, and hopefully that means at SOME point I'll actually be done with school and have a "grown up" job. Life is good here right now. The domestic front isn't too bad although I'm still not doing grownup things like getting married or having babies (although I'm at that stage where my friends are doing that... and then it's like, I'll be that person in the groupwho stubbornly isn't. Ha.) But yeah. The HP6 movie comes out on Wednesday and I've gathered some likeminded folks so we can go watch it and then analyze and dissect it for discussion. Good times. If I remember I might also post thoughts here, like in the old days.
I am on Facebook a LOT. That's what happens when my work involves sitting at a computer trying to write a thesis. I'm on the TD group there, so find that and talk to me there, since I've had to change my security settings to ridiculously high by FB standards (too many students to deal with otherwise). Anyway, that's about all for now. I miss you all. Much love.
Edit: I have just spent the last hour or so reading through some old topics, including all the TDSC entries from the past years. You guys are all amazing! Just reading back on the things we used to talk about and the conversations we had with each other make me smile, even after all these years.
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Emma
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Post by Emma on Jul 18, 2009 18:40:29 GMT -5
Thought I'd drop by the old place again, the new films always bring me back here out of curiosity. So I managed to get myself into university, even if it turned out to be the wrong course for me, which now means I'm restarting all over again with a new course from September, same Uni though, which is brilliant. I've found a new hobby which I love very much and am hoping to make a career in, Radio. Involved in Student Radio and all sorts of other bits I can get involved with really. In fact, if anyone reads this over the summer of 2009, you can catch me on www.offthechart.co.uk on Mondays 5-7pm and Saturdays 12-2pm GMT+1 (BST) Much love to you all, one day we'll all make it back here again.
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