Hello. I happened upon MSCL.com as did, I do not doubt, many others – the DVDs. I did not post during that nightmare, but I did find solace in reading other’s posts. I eventually wandered into the “Show” forum, and much later found myself reading some of the others. I posted as a guest for a while (same name) and finally registered. I did not intend to formally introduce myself, but after I posted on the Christmas thread (The Wonder Years pulled me in) I felt it was time to say hello.
I watched MSCL when it first aired; I too was a fifteen-year-old high school student. I have loved it ever since.
In regards to the suggested questions:
Your goals and aspirations: PHD in English literature, improve my handwriting, to be on time (the last seems to be pretty much a hopeless cause)
Your greatest accomplishment in life thus far: my senior thesis on Black American literature as history, and my Masters on the literacy of reading literature.
Your shoe size: 7.5 (Women’s USA)
Favorite fruit: Harry and David pears
Most guilty pleasure: I’m not sure I have one, guilty, that is. My So-Called Life?
Best childhood sugary Saturday morning cereal: all we had was original cherios and oatmeal. It was the dining commons that introduced sugary breakfasts.
Favorite cartoon character: Trent from Daria. Also Jane and Daria.
What you consider to be the ultimate disco song: Disco?
Voluntary info:
Nobody writes better love songs than The Cure.
After graduating, twice, and entering the working world, I am going through college withdrawl. (Perhaps that is why I am spending time here, I need something to write analytically about
No, I love this site and really enjoy hearing other's readings of the show and the correlations everyone makes between the show and their own lives!)
I do not like having roommates.
Something that has always bothered me about MSCL is the absence of sweatshirts.
Mr. Darcy being the most desirably-engrossing male character I have encountered, (by this I mean one that lingers with you; one that makes you hold the book tighter in hopes of extracting everything possible; one simultaneously devilish and endearing,…) I recognize elements of him in Jordan Catalano. A villain in many ways, yes, but also so redeemable, intriguing, and enigmatic.
I chose Jody Barsch as my username because I love the unkown history behind her – I love that the series never explored her story, that it is left as an ellipses in the characters’ lives. So much of it, as in the show and in life, seems to depend on the vantage point you look at it from.
That really turned out to be much longer than I had intended. Anyway, hello!