Shara, I beg to differ -- your presence here is quite special to us.
Reading this thread, so far I'm most envious of Dick.
I'm in a bind -- I had fourteen nationally published stories from 1991 through 1997, but most of them were in Juggs, which doesn't make for that great a mainstream resume.
I once had a letter published in Newsweek. It netted me some guy in Alabama rambling to me over my answering machine.
For anyone following my Pittsburgh outings thread, currently I have a very odd once-in-agreat-while relationship with a woman who has made fleeting appearances in two major motion pictures, and is due for two more such fleeting appearances this year.
I could also tell you my relationship to Pittsburgh's leading science fiction club, the one that hosts Confluence, but then I'd have to kill you.