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HAPPY BIRTHDAY PSMKAY
« on: Dec 22, 2013, 10:54 am »
Thank you for this site, a gift that gives to all of us every day. Have a gloriously fun day with tons of presents and lots of good times with good friends!

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PSMKAY
« Reply #1 on: Dec 22, 2013, 12:32 pm »
Indeed, Happy PSMKAY DAY!!!!
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PSMKAY
« Reply #2 on: Dec 22, 2013, 01:10 pm »
Happy birthday, Kay!

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PSMKAY
« Reply #3 on: Dec 22, 2013, 03:00 pm »
You have given all of us such a present with this site, here is wishing you only the very best in the coming year...
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PSMKAY
« Reply #4 on: Dec 22, 2013, 03:11 pm »
Aw, you guys are kind and silly. Thank you! One of the best parts of it for me has been watching all of you grow over the past 14 years - from grad school and student musicals to raising babies and Broadway!

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PSMKAY
« Reply #5 on: Dec 22, 2013, 07:04 pm »
 ;D Happy Birthday!!! Have so much Fun!!  ;D

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PSMKAY
« Reply #6 on: Dec 22, 2013, 08:02 pm »
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PSMKAY
« Reply #7 on: Dec 22, 2013, 11:24 pm »
Happy birthday, and thank you!!!
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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PSMKAY
« Reply #8 on: Dec 23, 2013, 08:55 am »
Happy Belated Kay! 
Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action. -T. Roosevelt

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PSMKAY
« Reply #9 on: Dec 23, 2013, 10:42 am »
Yes! Thank you Kay! And Happy Belated!

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PSMKAY
« Reply #10 on: Dec 27, 2013, 09:36 am »
Happy belated from me too! And thank you for all the work you put into this resource for us - it's been invaluable and wonderful.

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PSMKAY
« Reply #11 on: Dec 27, 2013, 10:45 am »
What really surprises me is that Kay wasn't overwhelmed with appreciation and good wishes from the 100s of SMs on this site who read it and ask questions/advice/help every day.

You have created a community - a strong, vibrant, international community of stage managers, something no one else has accomplished. We get to learn about as well as from each other, exploring all kinds of facets of our profession in both important and interesting ways and sharing masses of helpful information. I don't know about the rest of you, but those resources which are "each other" have been incredible, helping with all kinds of challenges, including practical solutions to shared issues [rail cue sheets? done; fake goose? done; vomit in God of Carnage? done]. Many of us have even been delighted to meet quite a few SMNetwork SMs F2F as we or they travel. And this doesn't include the list of jobs/internships we might not otherwise have known about.

Hope your bday was amazing and filled with all kinds of celebration, and once again, thank you on so many levels for skills and foresight in making this site the resource and vibrant life-to-life link that it is. Deepest appreciation for everything.
« Last Edit: Dec 27, 2013, 10:56 am by loebtmc »

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PSMKAY
« Reply #12 on: Dec 27, 2013, 02:16 pm »
Well shucks, loebtmc. Thanks kindly!

However, I have to say that it is the community themselves who have made the site into what it is today. As I browse around the web I am always amazed at the contrast between the average online communities and the polite, sincere and professional commentary offered by our members. So in return, thanks to all of you for sharing what you've learned with the rest of the industry, and for taking what you've learned here back to your casts and crews so that we can all move forward together.

I see a lot of the members posting in this thread are very very long-term contributors. Some of you have been around since the earliest incarnations of SMNetwork - I know at least loebtmc, VSM and Matthew (who I remember when he was still in grad school) were posting back when SMNet was just a single chat board - and most of the others have been around since the early days of the current format. It's also very rare in the modern internet to see a core community hold together so consistently over time, so special thanks back to all of you who have given so freely of your time and knowledge for so long.

Here's a little present as a thank you: a snapshot of the earliest incarnation of the SMNetwork forums from nearly 14 years ago, in all their MS Frontpage/Geocities glory, courtesy of the Wayback Machine.
« Last Edit: Dec 27, 2013, 02:20 pm by PSMKay »

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Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PSMKAY
« Reply #13 on: Jan 01, 2014, 02:31 am »
Thanks for the throwback! Fun how some topics - glowtape, nudity - just keep coming up. :)

 

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