Big Beautiful Dreamer
ridiculously contented
Okay, so it hasn't been exactly a year. It was sometime in early April of 2010 that I signed on as moderator of Hyde Park.
<Pause to duck>
It's been everything I'd hoped for ... and feared.
The Hyde Parkers are a unique group, and I mean this in a completely Jesus-y way when I say I really do love you, individually and collectively. I love the thread derails, the goony pics, (most of) the emoticons, the thread starts, the cyber-relationships (all platonic, folks, move along).
I enjoy very much being a part of the mod community as well. It's a fun, challenging, and occasionally disturbing land, much like Hyde Park.
For the most part, y'all respond well to PMs and to my responses to your questions and concerns. And most of the time, you're grown-up enough for me to live with.
Truly, though, I want to take the occasion to thank you for a hugely entertaining and fulfilling year. I miss the job I left to go to grad school, and HP gives me a daily taste of it. Including the contingent who are fiercely convinced that I'm so far left I'm nearly falling over the port side. And the contingent who are fiercely convinced of the opposite. At least no one's called me a lying bitch yet (which actually did happen at the ex-job). And since I'm a screaming extrovert, I enjoy the cyber-contact.
Here's to another year of HappyFatChick, eating on trains, election cycles, Australian prime ministers, tangents, public spats, and more. Y'all are terrific. Thanks.
:bow: : :bow:
<Pause to duck>
It's been everything I'd hoped for ... and feared.
The Hyde Parkers are a unique group, and I mean this in a completely Jesus-y way when I say I really do love you, individually and collectively. I love the thread derails, the goony pics, (most of) the emoticons, the thread starts, the cyber-relationships (all platonic, folks, move along).
I enjoy very much being a part of the mod community as well. It's a fun, challenging, and occasionally disturbing land, much like Hyde Park.
For the most part, y'all respond well to PMs and to my responses to your questions and concerns. And most of the time, you're grown-up enough for me to live with.
Truly, though, I want to take the occasion to thank you for a hugely entertaining and fulfilling year. I miss the job I left to go to grad school, and HP gives me a daily taste of it. Including the contingent who are fiercely convinced that I'm so far left I'm nearly falling over the port side. And the contingent who are fiercely convinced of the opposite. At least no one's called me a lying bitch yet (which actually did happen at the ex-job). And since I'm a screaming extrovert, I enjoy the cyber-contact.
Here's to another year of HappyFatChick, eating on trains, election cycles, Australian prime ministers, tangents, public spats, and more. Y'all are terrific. Thanks.
:bow: : :bow: 
