Accumulated E-mails: Nadia

[soldtoarmenians]

August 31st, 2000
To: bridge.carson, m.parker, isabel.evans, willow.rosenberg, dawn.summers, alanna.trebond, samuel.anders, rory.gilmore, john.crichton, d'anna.biers, angela.chase, martin.blank, veruca.cally, samantha.carter, nadia.santos, alex.krycek, jake.gavin, peter.pevensie, skankzero.hopelesssavage /// @fandomhigh.net, veronica.mars@hearst.edu
From: xharris@ucsd.edu
Subject: [blank]

If *any* of you guys get this, will you tell everybody else I'm trying to call and write but everything keeps bouncing back at me? I haven't got anything from Fandom, either, and I'm pretty sure you didn't *all* decide I need to be shunnedOMG. And Willow can't get e-mail out to her friends from Hogwarts, so it's not the phone or the alumni net thing, it's some kind of interference on this end, she thinks. She's hacking the network of checking with the guys at the Watchers' Council who sent us off in the first place to see if they know what's going on.

This may not go through either, but I'll keep trying. And if you get spammed, um. Sorry? Better than thinking I was blowing you off, right?

Miss you all, even Faithful
Xander
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ooooo. [The same e-mail repeated every day until September 10th, 2000]
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December 25th, 2000
To: bridge.carson, callisto, m.parker, isabel.evans, willow.rosenberg, dawn.summers, alanna.trebond, aeryn.sun, samuel.anders, rory.gilmore, john.crichton, d'anna.biers, angela.chase, martin.blank, veruca.cally, samantha.carter, nadia.santos, alex.krycek, jake.gavin, peter.pevensie, peter.parker, skankzero.hopelesssavage, jenny.calendar, jaye.tyler /// @fandomhigh.net, veronica.mars@hearst.edu
From: xharris@ucsd.edu
Subject: Merry Stuffs

Happymerrypeacefulzombiefree Chrismakuhsticearoni - does that cover everybody? And I figure if I'm throwing bottles of e-mail out into the internets it's just as likely they'll make it to ancient Greece as it is that they'll hit Fandom, so Cal, if you're reading this, happy whatever the hell you guys celebrate in December too. Happy Anniversary-of-the-Strip-Triad-Game-I'm-Kinda-Sorry-I-Missed, maybe.

Willow says hi me and hi Bridge, and then she kind of shakes her head a little bit because she's still on the Oh Xander train and thinks I don't get how unlikely it is that you guys will ever see this. I do, though. Some things are just worth saying anyway, you know?

Like I passed my first semester of classes. It was touch and go for a while, but I am an actual bonafide college guy, as opposed to an actual bonafide flunkedoutofcollege guy. An actual bonafide college guy with his first actual bonafide car, too, even if it's an actual bonafide POS. And everybody here is alive and ...about as safe as you ever get in Sunnydale. (Dawn, there's a maybe on the Thing; they can't tell yet but they're checking again next week.)

Except now I ran out of news that's fit to print and doesn't involve other people's sekrits. That's one of the drawbacks about the whole never hearing back thing, aside from the obvious - all I can do is talk about me.

So instead I'll make stuff up about you guys. If I don't hear back from you I'll just assume I was right.

Let's see, it's December, so you've already had at least one invasion. This time it was MIMES. Marty, Peter Parker, Greg, Cally and Belthazor all got taken over and formed a troupe, roaming the dorms and annoying...I mean scaring the crap out of everybody who set foot in the hallways. The evil mimes were foiled when John, Sam, Nadia and Bridge joined together and built a giant invisible box around them (that dispenses cotton candy when they bang on the walls to be let out), and all the students went back to...as normal as they ever were. The mimes are still there, but no one cares because you all threw a sheet over the box and went on with your lives.

Veronica, Cal, Angel and Logan all came back for Homecoming. Angel's hair looked stupid. This is not actually news. Greg gave him a makeover, though. It still looks stupid (not Greg's fault; you can only work with what you're given), but it's taller now.

D'anna turned into a frog for a while, and had a wild fling with Jeremiah, but they broke it off even before D got turned back due to irreconcilable Vanessa Saturn shipping preferences. The Perk closed down and was replaced by a fancy mineral water store. Rory and Jake sat on the sidewalk in front of it every day for a week and LOOKED SAD AND WOEFUL at everybody who went in or out until they gave up and turned it back into a coffee shop. In not unrelated news, Krycek had a minor nervous breakdown during this period, but he's better now. He only twitches uncontrollably if you mention Evian around him.

Alanna dyed her hair black and took up smoking clove cigarettes and wearing a beret. Faithful laughed so hard he completely lost his voice, which is exactly why she did it. He was grumpy once he figured that out, but Willow and Anders cheered him up with catnip-laced cookies.

Angela dyed her hair black and took up smoking clove cigarettes and wearing a beret too, but it was a philosophical statement. Which didn't stop Faithful from laughing at her too.

Dean the Tick was seen wearing jeans and a t-shirt, which made everybody (except people from Sunnydale) wonder if the apocalypse was nigh, but no, the laundry machines were just on strike again so he couldn't wash his tights. The randomly-disappearing clothes thing happened again too, but this time it was even taking people's underwear. Jaye skipped classes to follow Constable Fraser around all week. Nobody knows for sure what happened but she was back in class on Monday and she WON'T STOP SMILING.

How'd I do?

love,
Xander
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January 9th, 2001
To: bridge.carson, m.parker, rory.gilmore, nadia.santos /// @fandomhigh.net
From: xharris@ucsd.edu
Subject: Breakability

So for future reference and not that I'm looking really closely at you when I say this Nadia but only because painkillers make my eyes do that unfocussy thing: when your best friend and your other best friend's Watcher get into an argument about whether inside the store is the very best place to be practicing portable sunlight spells and things get broke and then there's a very large troll who in a moment of utter randomness got that way due to the girl I went to my first prom with and then more things get broke and said best friend calls you for help and there's loud yelling and threats of crushing of various crushable people in the background, the smartest thing ever is to run in and try to distract the walking mountain range with the same jokes you tried on the giant inflatable gremlin at graduation while said other best friend tries to steal his big smashy thing.

I mean yeah, it *worked* and now Buffy has a niftykeen new hammer to play with, but I can't help thinking he sensed it wasn't new material and the only thing actually distracting him was the amusing cracky sounds my bones were making. If you want to bitchslap me, Parker, now would be the time, because haha I won't feel it anyway.

In conclusion, drugs good, comedy hard, Spike totally hustles pool, always carry a cellphone because you never want to miss a good opportunity to put your arm in a sling and if you have to find new ways to break yourself I already called dibs on trolls so find your own schtick.

love, Xander
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February 20th, 2001
To: Shop Buddies + Bridge <bridge.carson@fandomhigh.net, samantha.carter@fandomhigh.net, nadia.santos@fandomhigh.net, john.crichton@fandomhigh.net>
Subject: Robots that don't suck...exactly

And now for your monthly dose of Sunnydale WTF: some guy at UCSD built a robot girlfriend. She got sort of rampagey when he dumped her, but she didn't really suck. (And okay, I can see that coming from a mile away, so I'll just say NOT DIRTY now, except for with all the stuff he programmed into her it probably is.) She was just kind of...sad. Really *hot* - the dude knows his stuff when it comes to plastic people. But I totally get the thing you were saying now, Bridge. If I'd asked him to build me a robot-you, I wouldn't have to be psychic to tell that it wasn't *you*.

~Xander
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March 18th, 2003
To: aeryn.sun, alanna.trebond, alex.krycek, angela.chase, belthazor, bridge.carson, callisto, cameron.mitchell, charlie.kawalsky, conner.mcknight, d'anna.biers, dawn.summers, elizabeth.delgado, hamlet.dane, isabel.evans, jake.gavin, jaye.tyler, jenny.calendar, john.crichton, m.parker, marty.blank, nadia.santos, peter.parker, peter.pevensie, phoebe.halliwell, rory.gilmore, samantha.carter, samuel.anders, veruca.cally, willow.rosenberg, zero.hopelesssavage, zoe.washburn ///@fandomhigh.net, veronica.mars@hearst.edu, cchase@nyu.edu, hotsauce@yahoo.com

From: purplefrog@yahoo.com

In case you guys heard about Sunnydale going under (or hell, maybe it happened years ago for some of you), just wanted to let you know we came through. Most of us, anyway. The world's not getting taken over by vampires, at least not this week. Faith saved us.

(That's a name; I didn't like, join a cult or something. Like Faith who used to be in Fandom, just this one was ours.)

Got to go. We're on our way to LA, just stopped for gas and the truckstop has wifi so I dragged out the keyboard since it's easier than typing on the phone. So anyway. I'm still here. Hope you're still there, wherever there might be these days.

~Xander
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May 6th, 2003
From: purplefrog@yahoo.com
To: nadia.santos, pippi.longstocking, pip.bernadette, walter.dornez, molly.hayes, blair.sandburg ///@fandomhigh.net
Subject: Happy Graduation

I think you're the last ones left to be not getting these in Fandom, instead of someplace else. Hope Nadia did stick it out in school and didn't have to leave again. Not that you're not smart enough to get by even without a high school diploma, but you'd be surprised how often something I learned at FH comes in handy. I mean it's entirely possible I'll never eat lobster again, but quid pro quo, not mating with a giant Spider-god? Makes for a pretty nice day.

~Xander