Willow Rosenberg

netwitch @ 2004-08-17T23:29:00

2004-08-18T06:29:17Z

I've gotten sucked into daytime television. This poor woman today was pregnant with her third son by her fifth husband and he was cheating on her with her transvestive half-brother! Can you believe that guy?

Oh, dear. I wonder if Dawnie can sneak a few books out of Angel's office for me to read? I've read everything here, and I'm afraid if I keep watching television my brain will get mushy. If it isn't already. Will I know if my brain gets mushy? Or will I just wake up one day and be obsessed with Paris Hilton?

netwitch @ 2004-08-09T13:46:00

2004-08-09T20:46:24Z

Okay, badness. Major badness. I've got some weird virus-thingy that makes me all swoony, and I don't want to be passing out all the time! I'm a modern woman, not some Scarlett O'Hara wannabe. (Unless Kennedy's here to sweep me off my feet, which is an entirely different situation.)

Sigh. I went back to the doctor, but they didn't have anything new to tell me. I'm thinking it might be some kind of mystical sickness 'cause it seems to hit me when I'm doing magic. Andrew's called Giles, so hopefully he'll have some suggestions.

Research

2004-07-16T05:35:08Z

I've been all research-y lately, between studying. It's kind of fun. We didn't do much research in South America. It was mostly slayer-tracking, and slayer-explaining-to and slayer-sending-off-to-England, and celebrating-successful-slayer-finding.

I miss Kennedy. I wish she could have come back here with me. Emails are nice, but not so good for snuggling. :(

Anyway, I've been researching the stuff that's been happening lately. I haven't gotten very far with the black box and the weird prophecy-poem, but I was hoping "The Reborn One" would be a good clue.

Unfortunately, not so much. It's really a pretty general term. I Googled it, and came up with all kinds of references, from the "Wheel of Time" books to Christian sites. Also, some GI Joe comic, and an article on Mac shareware. (Ok, that was kind of nifty. I found a couple of new programs.) I did find that the name "Renee" means "The Reborn One". Maybe they're referring to a woman named Renee? But there must be tons of people with that name.

We're collecting puzzle pieces, but we don't even know if they're all from the same puzzle. I think Buffy and I need to get proactive on this. We could go back to the sites, maybe find out if they have something in common. We can't just wait for it to come get us.

netwitch @ 2004-07-01T12:56:00

2004-07-01T19:56:00Z

I called Kennedy last night after class, even though I should have been studying. I mean, my first week back in school, and I already had to miss a class 'cause of the big evil brewing. Fortunately, it turned out to be not-so-big-evil. Or, not-so-hard-to-defeat evil, anyway. Andrew got a message from the Council, so Angel and I went to check it out.

We'd just planned to do some recon, but it was pretty minor. Just a black box with a bomb in it. Which, okay, bad, but I took care of it, no sweat. Angel was pretty cool about things, too.

That's why I called Kennedy. Okay, mainly it was because I miss my girl, and emails just aren't the same as hearing her voice. But also because I wanted to talk to someone about Angel.

I mean, it's great having him back with us, and working with him, like old times. (Only with me being an empowered woman rather than the damsel-in-distress. Seeing his face when he realized that? Very cool. :) ) But we still don't know everything that happened in L.A. I want to trust him, but should I?

Kennedy pointed out that it's true, we don't know everything that happened in L.A. So we don't know what kind of situations he was facing, and how he came to the decisions he did. And Angel's always come through for us. (Except when he didn't have a soul, but that's different.) I think I can give him the benefit of the doubt.

Besides, there are too many other things to worry about now. There's that weird prophecy we got from that Oracle, whoever set up that black box, and my Advanced Optics class. Whatever's happened in the past, Angel's a good guy now, and we can really use his help.

Unless he breaks Buffy's heart again. Then I'm dropping him in a vat of holy water.

netwitch @ 2004-06-16T14:22:00

2004-06-16T21:57:32Z

I should have known that earthquake meant weirdness was afoot. Xander ran into Angel, Spike (whose big flamey death was somehow less than deadly), some poor human guy who wasn't even conscious, and, um, something else. Plus, a whole boatload of bad news. There's big evil chasing them, and they need help, and oh yeah, by the way, Fred, Cordelia, and Wes are dead.

I never really got to know Fred. I was going to call her soon, too. She's one of the reasons I was looking forward to living in California. L.A.'s not that far from San Diego; we could have hung out once in a while. I never met anyone else I could talk to about science and magic and everything else the way I could talk to her. I think she would have understood why I've chosen to study theoretical physics.

She was Fred. There's no one else like her. This thing that wears her body - that isn't Fred. How can they just accept her like that? Let her walk around wearing Fred's face?

And how could he let Wesley die? And Cordelia? I thought I knew Angel once. Well, not "knew" in the way that Buffy did maybe, but he was a friend, and someone I could trust. He helped us. He saved my life more than once.

Then he went off and joined up with the Corporation O'Evil? He says it was to fight them from the inside, but how can we trust him? Our friends who trusted him are gone now.

Is this my fault? Maybe there's too much evil in me, now, and the last time I gave him his soul back, I screwed up. Maybe I gave him an evil soul, or a tainted one, or maybe it went bad somehow. Maybe souls are like cheese, and if you don't store them at a proper temperature, they go bad and stinky.

I don't know. I should say something about Wes and Cordelia, but I can't. I just can't deal with all this right now. Dawn's at the hospital, looking after the poor guy they brought with him, Buffy's trying to deal with the whole Spike thing, and we've all got to prepare for this big horde o'demons that may or may not be coming.

But Xander's back. And that's the one part of the day that didn't suck even a little bit. It's good to have him home.

A city full of newness - and soon, Xanderness!

2004-06-15T06:44:56Z

Ok, I've been trying to get our new place cleaned and organized and everything, since Dawnie and I are being hostess gals, and I was totally on schedule with the unpacking, until Buffy got here yesterday. Not that it's Buffy's fault - it's just that we've hardly seen each other since we all took off in different directions a year ago, and there's only so much you can cover in email. So the three of us ended up talking most of the night last night.

We did some exploring of the city today - well, the neighborhood, at least. I think I'll have to get a car soon. There's a shuttle from our neighborhood to the university, but for most everything else we'll need a vehicle. Plus, Dawn's planning to get her license. She's grown up so much! I can't believe she's going to college already. Pretty soon she'll be dating college boys and going to parties - uh-oh. I wonder if Buffy's warned her about college guys? Maybe I can make her an amulet that will ward off the wrong sort - like an anti-Parker spell. If any guy tries to use our Dawnie, he's going to be hurting.

The only thing wrong with San Diego is the absence of Kennedy. I wish she could have come back to the States with me, but she's pretty much the cornerstone of the Slayer training program in Brazil right now. Maybe next year she'll be able to move back here.

I thought about waiting another year to go back to school, but it's going to take me at least five years for my doctorate, plus I've still got to finish a few credits on my undergrad. And - okay, I really missed school. It was strangely liberating, in a somewhat frightening way, to spend a year away from the structure of academic life - but I can't wait to go back! I've already started reading the book for my summer school class. I'm afraid my study skills are kind of rusty, though, so I've been watching the History channel and taking notes just for practice.

Tomorrow's the big event - Xander's flying in! I've missed him so much. You know, this is the longest time we've ever been apart? Plus, he hasn't had much computer or phone access. We've been exchanging letters and postcards, but the mail's pretty slow where he's been. Well, tomorrow we get to catch up! :)