I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer . I love the monsters, the action, the great characters, and the self-awareness with which the show conducts itself. One thing I love most, though, is the language. Buffy characters get fantastic lines like, "Can you vague that up for me?" and "That'll put marzipan in your pie-plate, bingo." (Okay, the last one was a word-salad phrase said by a robot. Still.) Often, words will get "-y" added onto them so they become adjectives. I say this so you'll understand why, instead of saying "I think the normal fear of relocating to a whole new country is causing me to avoid my necessary tasks rather than accomplish them," I'm just saying, "Stress is making me avoid-y." Much simpler, and also better describes where I'm at right now. Mostly, I'm dreading the gigantic move to Japan because I already know what it'll be like. Instead of homesickness and culture shock being strange, un-quan...