From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

There are some new security measures. If you're having trouble posting and you don't think you're one of the jerks, drop me an e-mail or an AIM msg at kirkjerk.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

You know, this has been a bit of a suckass day.  Between Mo getting laid off (that makes two of us, at the moment) and this unprecedented crap flood, I could just bite something.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Kirk ~ bite ME!!<BR>
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(lol!! I know you're married, but it was the FIRST thought that popped into my mind! {I'm a bad, bad girl!}
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Gudkarma ~ You will always be welcome. And I will always thank you for what you've given me. <BR>
<BR>
-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=730">Oft felt</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

lol last one... promise...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=17">deevaa</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Kirk, I'm unemployed also (slight difference in that I gave up a perfectly good job to move to Australia, and now can't find any one that wants me).... so you, me, mo, gudkarma... we should start up a blender support group.<BR>
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(((hugs)))<BR>
<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Misti ~<BR>
Oh My God...I had TOTALLY forgotten about those books.  I read a few...but never really got into them.  It was like torture reading how perfect they were...so I didn't.  I was always a dork...I read what my teachers told me to!  How sad.<BR>
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Chris ~<BR>
Check out your knowledge of the Kanawha Valley!  I must say that I am impressed that anyone who isn't bound to this place by blood or love would have heard of it!<BR>
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Have a great day everyone - here it is almost 9 and I am still not even in the shower yet!  I better watch it or I will have to join that support group.<BR>
<BR>
Rhetoric
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=34">Just Some Girl</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Thank you, Sweetness.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

I finally found a job, after a month of searching. I was picky, though. I didn't want to work at AOL or any of the fast food joints. And Pussycats was out of the question.<BR>
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Rhet~<BR>
I don't know what's wrong with me. Since December when I found some original SVH books in New York I've been collecting them like mad. I read them and get depressed. But sometimes I laugh out loud 'cause they're so ridiculous! Yes...I admit that I am 29 and still buy and read Sweet Valley High books. But I'm reading the "Pulp Fiction" screenplay, too, so that kinda balances it out. Ha! Who did you think was hotter- Bruce Patman (my personal favorite) or Todd Wilkins?<BR>
;-)
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=638">Hopeful</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Misti- Yes!!! SVH absolutely rocked my world back in the day...I would have taken Bruce myself, Todd just was plain vanilla all the time.  Did you ever read any of the super Double Sagas they put out toward the end of the series.  Its twice as much drama for your buck!!!  I may run down to the library and embarass myself by checking out one or two...<BR>
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Hey and I can't remember who (Rhet??? maybe???) but I had noticed some WV related banter a few days back and references to our own Dancing Outlaw.  Could there be some more Mountaineers here?  <BR>
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Now off to actually read some subs...<BR>
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Country Roads and all that blue and gold type pride,<BR>
Megs
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=4">TJ Holland</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Oftfelt ~ Why the "last one"? Do you feel you should not be here? Why? I've really enjoyed reading your writings.<BR>
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-Teej
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=730">Oft felt</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

hmmm lol was thinkin it was time to dump this one and go back to my regular persona but thank you Teej for reading
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

oft felt...<BR>
I think I have finally read enough of your stuff to get your style.  So...I know you will still be here ;o)<BR>
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Misti...collecting them is cool, I think.  Nostalgia has always been theraputic to me. I have a secret teen-based TV show that I am TOO embarrassed to admit to following (addiction maybe)!  It is not written for the 27 year old in me...but to each of us there are vices!<BR>
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Hopeful...Yes, I am a Mountaineer!  I live in Chas.  How cool is that?  Small world.  Jesco is the tie that binds us, huh?  He he<BR>
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Rhet
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=638">Hopeful</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Rhet-<BR>
Holy Cow!!!<BR>
I am in Motown loving up University life.<BR>
I can't believe there is another Blender folk in WV!!!  <BR>
Or am I dork for thinking this is so cool?<BR>
Probably...<BR>
<BR>
(but I still think its pretty cool!!!)<BR>
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Oh and Kirk- I was just thinking since you can like...lock people out of their accounts and all that...is there anyway you could CHANGE a username and keep an account active.  And this is very selfish and pesky of me because I just want to be "Megs" (which is who I have always been) but I messed up and forgot the password to that one and had to make up a new handle.  <BR>
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Or you can tell me to just keep quiet,<BR>
Megs<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Megs, contact me by email or AIM and we can talk about resetting the "Megs" password for you.  The thing is I don't really have a mechanism to move the works that are attributed to "Hopeful" to the new account.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Misti~ <BR>
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I used to love Sweet Valley High!!! Oh my god, does that bring back memories!!! Wow...Thanks for writing that poem, girlie...You made me smile--and after the day I've had, that means a lot...<BR>
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Love and aged wisdom, Ali
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=8">Ali</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Misti~<BR>
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Definitely Bruce! *smile*
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Megs...regret defined is beautiful.  I am a big last line fan...I always remember last lines, rarely first lines, and your last 2 lines are so full of truth.  I know the feeling sometimes.  Funny that you live in Motown and go to WVU -  I work for WVU!  Now, is that ever freaky!!!!!  <BR>
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Tara J Holland...A day's work...whoa.  I always like it when you express emotions about your job.  As soon as I knew what you did for a living...I was intrigued.<BR>
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BK...keep your head up, Doll.  My thoughts are with you.<BR>
Rhet    
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Megs~<BR>
I love all your new stuff, 'specially <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.04.09.11.06.6788">Red Wine and Regrets</a> ...I watch "Blind Date" and "Fifth Wheel" whenever I'm staying in a motel room (I don't have cable yet). I love the girl who hosts the "Fifth Wheel" show. She's gorgeous and hilarious. Yes, I've read most of the SVH sagas. I need to buy those again. Let's see...there's the one where they go on a biking trip along the California coast and Elizabeth catches Todd holding that rich chick's hand...then there's the one where Elizabeth and Jessica go to France and Jessica sunbathes topless on the French Riviera- oh god, I'll stop now!<BR>
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Rhet~<BR>
"Saved By the Bell"? LOL! Just guessing. I watched an entire marathon once in college. And I don't care what anyone says, I still think "Showgirls" is a good movie. Good in the sense that I enjoy watching it.<BR>
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Ali~<BR>
I'm glad to hear that. Yeah, Bruce was a jerk but those lips...those eyes...that cute little cleft in his chin. Ha! The cover of *Playing With Fire* where he has his arm draped around Jessica is one of my favorites.<BR>
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Discounted Easter Candy and Canyon de Chelly postcards,<BR>
Misti<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=668">kylie</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Hey all - <BR>
<BR>
Congrats to the front pagers<BR>
<BR>
Condolences to Kenny McCormick<BR>
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Sorry about the layoffs Kirk & all...been there and the way things look around here, may be again sometime in the near future, heaven forbid.<BR>
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More tomorrow, kylie
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=638">Hopeful</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Misti-  Older bro Steven looks pretty good too y'know.  And he comes from such a nice family...Just for the record the Sweet Valley University series was gravely disappointing.  Jessica got absolutely ABUSED in those.  Right now we are in this VC Andrews revival at work..."Flowers in the Attic" and all. Now THERE is some guilty pleasure admission.<BR>
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Rhet-  How are you affiliated with the University?  I do have this "F" that needs erased *hangs head in shame*...hehe...<BR>
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Thanks to both for your compliments.<BR>
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Sweet Valley recollections AND a Mountaineer companion- what a day!!!<BR>
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Megs
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=620">Varda</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Angieubaldo, just wanted to that you for "unbirthday" which was depressingly nostalgic. ;) Somehow, double stuffed oreos are the universal prescription for heartaches. Take two and all me in the morning. <BR>
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*V*
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=684">Gudkarma</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

a support group for out of work poets?<BR>
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i've been out of work since aug.<BR>
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being 40 minuts from 'ground zeo' hasnt helped.<BR>
things around here are nuts.<BR>
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i should write a new poem. NUTS. CAN'T FIND A JOB!
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Jeezie petes, August? Yikes. What kind of work are you looking for?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=706">splatipus</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Hi Peeps<BR>
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Fat congrats to all the front pagers, all well deserved.<BR>
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Whats everybody been drinking over the past few days? So many new submissions! All absolutely excellent but especially liked the pieces by hopeful, misti, gudkarma, max-rom, cap angieubaldo, wordley and ange.<BR>
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The BASTARDS! How DARE they kill Kenny! I was going to marry him when I grew up! Who's gonna write the first poem dedicated to him then??<BR>
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RIP. Am now going to go and console myself with a bottle of gin.<BR>
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Toodle-pip<BR>
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Splatipus<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=205">Violet</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Kirk~ Hang in there... I'm sure you and Mo will find great jobs.  At least it can't get worse, right? ;-) I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.  
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=23">Kirk</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Violet, that is a good point in some sense.  I mean, it's not true that things can't be worse; Mo and both have our health, and a bunch of other stuff, just for starters. But I no longer have this odd little dread that something's gonna come up when she AIMs me...<BR>
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Hey, do any Blenderites live near Philadelphia? (my home sweet birthplace, but I only lived their three months.)  I'm looking for a place to stay on the cheap the evening of April 26th...thought it might be worth a shot asking here, for some kind Pennsylvanian soul who "feels like they know me" after 5 years of the Blender...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=638">Hopeful</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Kirk-<BR>
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Sorry Morgantown, WV is like aways off from Philly...three? Five?  Who knows...<BR>
But if its as close as you can get...<BR>
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*grin*<BR>
Megs
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=5">jackryhme</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

ummm welll... if anyone is interisted my boss is hireing...if you are under 32, physicaly fit and a mind like a rock... good health benifits, retire at 20, see the world, be all you can be... nice ocean cruises.... free housing...<BR>
early wake up calls and never have to worry about being fired...AND KENNY WILL NEVER DIE.... lol <BR>
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jack
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=660">Vishal</a><BR>
Date: 9 April 2002<P>

Any Blenderites on AOL instant messenging, who'd like to chat?
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