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I am just writing a short blurb to let everyone know that I am currently working on a blog entry with the working title "In Defense of Buffy The Vampire Slayer & Why Buffy Is indeed a Super Hero." (At this time I am mentally formulating this upcoming post for my blog.) The post will either be one long entry or it will be written in installments. In this blog I will put forth my reasons for why I believe that indeed Buffy IS a Superhero. This blog entry is going to be sort of a: "Nobody asked me but..."

I always enjoyed the show although I must admit that I have never seen the movie. However, from all that I've read concerning the movie and the subsequent television show and despite the fact that the show was originally established as a continuation of the movie; the two entities are very different. Not just in obvious ways such as an entirely new cast; but also in the tone of the show versus the movie. Where the movie was supposed to be just a comedy about a California blonde who just happens to have super powers the television show focused more heavily on the evolution of Buffy from a bimbo to a good,caring, strong and resilient woman who also kicks ass and saves the world... A lot!

I think that this is a good place to stop for now as I don't want to give away too much before I officially get into the blog. Hopefully that was enough to whet your appetite for a little bit of brain candy but perhaps I can make it more than that and give you an idea of just what I loved about this show and its characters.

Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.

Though this is a common and some would say constant theme of mine in this blog I have to admit that in the spring time my personal woes in regard to my (lack of) a real-life social network (as in a few close friends instead of "friends" on that other social network) really starts to get to me. I lament the fact that when the snow melts and the temperatures moderate and the days get longer I can think of a million and one ways in which I would like to get out and enjoy it but alas I haven't anyone with which to share these escapades. So, at a time when I have the money at my disposal and yes even the time I haven't the desire to go it alone. The more time that passes the less fun it becomes to keep ones own company all the live loong day. It is not that I haven't met people or that I don't know people who I suppose if circumstances were different would be good friends or even dear friends but for some reason or another these "relationships" never seem to advance to that level. I get breadcrumbs here and there but never are my expressions of friendship reciprocated. I literally don't know how to convert acquaintances into Real friends. I can honestly say that I had somewhat more success as a teenager though at the time I thought that I was of course tragically unpopular and definitely not cool enough for most people.

The real problem as I see it is the fact that I seem to lack that certain Je ne sais quoi which peaks their interest. I don't have a lot of the same interests in music or TV shows or movies et cetera (How do you like that; French and Latin in the same paragraph?) and therefore perhaps people cannot relate to me or I to them? I would accept this explanation if it didn't have one fatal flaw... and that is that often people "reject" me long before they've even taken the time to get to know me to discover a lack of common interests. So where's the love people?? Why the cold-shoulder? Why do I repel you so? Will I ever know the answers to these questions or will I continue to wander through life clueless and meeting person after person a conversation here and maybe a phone call there only to find that this person has suddenly fallen off the face of the earth? Will Santa Claus ever learn of this island of misfit toys where I've been banished and I will eventually know the feeling of true friendships? God I really hope so and soon!