First off, it turns out that the Walk with Heroes awards have been announced. I found out when IceWing (one of the nominees in the Xander category) e-mailed me to let me know and congradulate me on tying with huzzlewhat for the Xander award.

First off: Congrats to all of us for being nominated! These were all fan-nominated and to be honest, it was an honor to be noticed. There are a lot of high-quality BtVS and AtS fanfic being produced, so being in a select group of nominees felt good.

Secondly: I tied with the fabulous huzzlewhat for the best story in the Xander category. Huzzlewhat? You are a very classy lady and I'm honored that Whisper tied with the beautiful Seeing Africa.

Thirdly: I especially want to hug all of the Xander authors in the category. We really put on a good showing and all the stories nominated were consistently excellent. To be considered in the same category as all of you made me feel fantastic.

Finally: Last but not least, special thanks to hpchick for nominating Whisper. A thousand hugs and thank you.

For a complete list of winners, check it out here.

Also, before I forget, I want to congradulate everyone on my FList who also got their own pretty award in their respective categories:

booster17 for the funny and heart-breaking I Don't Like Mondays (Angel)

annakovsky for the stunning Umad Learns Sumerian (Dawn)

jennyo for All the World and Sunset Besides and Revenant (Fred, Villans)

And last but defintely not least nwhepcat for her fabulous This Little Light (Original Character)

See? I was planning on signing on to rant that of course a treecat has now adopted Hamish Alexander in War of Honor, even though it went completely against canon and Weber knows it went against canon and tried to unsuccessfully write his way out of it by presenting the world's most convoluted explanation on how this "special event" could possibly happen.

If Shannon Foraker gets herself a treecat, I will positively scream my head off. I'm with ffutures: Time to employ bioweapons to wipe the little rat-bastad treecats out.

Aren't you glad I got good news before I zipped over here?


Ohhhhh, and the real reason I signed on...more Living History. You know the drill.

Previous parts up to 54 are here

Continued from here

( Part 55C: Windows Future and Past (Catherine) )