Once upon a time there was a little girl - she was 14 years old, taller than most anyone her age, geeky, shy and from time to time felt very lonely even when she was in a crowd.... Gosh looking back I really don't miss those years of teen angst!

One day I sat down in front of the tv and watched the first episode of a tv show about vampires and I was hooked. Being a hormonal teenage girl the impossible lovestory of the Slayer and cursed Vampire had particulary appealed to me but the writing and humore of it was not lost on me either. Sadly the tv-network pulled a funny on me: after airing the first season it went away for a year.

In the meantime I went on with me life. Things around me started to change, some of it to the better and some it not so much better as just painful and scary. Thankfully just as things were about to get too painfull and utterly unbareble the show returned to my tv first as a daytime rerun of the first season and then as a weekly hiding place every sunday afternoon. How's that for Sunday service!?

I've always maintained that timing of season 2 hitting the Danish airwaves has kept me out of some serious therapy. To make a long story a little less long it was a whole big thing about my Grandfather dying, Mum spiraling into depression due to the death of her father combined with her getting assulted at work and me thinking that I was the one to keep things from falling together at home. All things combined with the everyday angst of being an insecure teenanger meant that I was in dire need of some escape to a world where things were even scarier to get some kind of distance and perspective to my own pain.

When I think back on all the hours I've spent watching Buffy or Angel I have to say that it was more than just watching a tv show. Over the year I've made some really good and close friendsbecause of it. By friends i mean both the characters who were/are some brilliantly written that they feel more like actual close and personal friends to me than fictional characters in a world made for tv but I'm also talking about actual real world friends all around the world. I know for sure that I would never have suddenly found myself sitting on the beach in Brazil if it wasn't for the Jossverse.

So now 10 years down the road I'm still as obsessed with the Verse as ever. The recent suckiness and pains of my life has spiraled me back into the viewing paterns of my teen years. I guess my safe place is the Hellmouth and the Home Office of W&H...

Thank you Joss for giving me not only a place to hide, ways to cope, great friends fictional and real and also continuing to add to my english skills.

Now lets get on with the Slayerbration - got the dvds all ready to go along with the ice cream and kleenex!