Thanks, Cheryl. Moderating this forum has been a great experience for me. Ginger had been bugging me for about a year to do it, and one day I asked her to add the seed discussion forum to fornits. I didn't know what to expect. One of the hinderences to the growth of the board has been how hard it is to find it. If you type "the seed" into a browser, you get 1/2 million or so links to Seed distributors and other links. The only real way to find it is to type "art barker the seed".
That being said, I am very happy about the direction this site has taken. Us ex- seedlings tend to be a little older and a little less bitter than the straight survivors, but part of that is, in addition to our advancing age, our experience was slightly different (but less so than some imagine).
Tell us a little about your experience in that Hot, bug infested, kooky compound down on SR 84. I am particularly interested in stories about Art & Co.
I visited there twice, once while in the seed and the other time shortly after graduating. My sister and I showed up in our Seed t-shirts all ready for a hero's welcome, and what we got was interrogated, a quick introduction to the group, and a bum's shuffle out the door. It was a little bewildering at the time, but in retrospect, expected behavior for the paranoid nut cases in charge.
The place was essentially similar to St Petersburg with the exception of more Art Barker. We had the "Art Barker lite" version of the program as he only showed up once or twice a week to lead a rap or inspect the place.
Anyway, it's nappy time...tell us a story!