Babysitter's Club Update #2: Claudia.

Claudia Kishi, Vice President of the Babysitter's Club

Background: Artsy, poor at school-work, loves fashion.

Update:

After barely graduating from high school Claudia hitch-hiked down to burning man with a group of stoner friends. There she tripped acid for 4 days straight which led her to understand her true calling; basket weaving. She ended up investing most of her savings in this new found undertaking plus a van to work out of. After 3 months of weaving and an entire van full of baskets Claudia gave up on that future. Now she draws caricatures of people on the beach in tiny tourist town in South Carolina. She lives in her van with her hippie boyfriend Stardust.

Babysitter's Club Update #1: Kristy.

Kristy Thomas, President of the Babysitter's Club.

Background: Tomboy, loves, baseball, and is bossy.

Update:

Well, here's the low down. Kristy decides she really does love Bart and they end up getting married right out of college. They move back to Stonybrook and have two kids.

But then one day, when Kristy is dropping her kids off at school she notices Jackie, a very attractive 3rd grade teacher. Kristy realizes she cannot continue living a lie. She divorces Bart and "becomes" a lesbian. She even starts her own blog, LesbianMoms4Change. She moves to New York and screws every woman she meets, but theirs one catch; they have to remind her in some way of her pals from the baby-sitters club. She's especially attracted to woman who look or act like Stacey.

During a vacation she actually runs into Stacey on a lesbian cruise--but discovers to her dismay that Stacey isn't a lesbian at all but just part of the entertainment crew.

She leaves vacation disappointed but also happy she ran into an old friend.

Currently Kristy has her kids on the weekend so they can stay in school at Stonybrook, in their peaceful upperclass neighborhood. She works as a physical therapist during the day and watches terrible romantic LGTB films at night while drinking coors-light and crying about no one truly understanding her.

The former club members are considering a intervention, not because they think she has a drinking problem, but because they think she's too sad (though most of them aren't doing so hot themselves--more updates to come).

Say Hello To The People Who Care: Babysitter's Club.

The other night I was laying in bed, I couldn't fall asleep, I kept thinking about the Babysitter's Club.

I wondered, what happened to Ann Martin, is she just rolling around in bathtubs full of cash?

The series sold 17 million copies.

If you happen to be really out of it, the Babysitter's Club started out as series of books, then grew into this mega marketing campaign, with dolls (which I had like 4 of them), sleeping bags (which I had one), shirts, other junk, then a tv series, followed by at least one movie if not more. (Plus there was also Babysitters The Little Sister, Karen book series). I'm pretty sure I owned most of these books; if I didn't own them I know I read them. And there were hundreds.

But now I can barely remember what happened in any of them.

Surely they were important to my brain development.

Yet. Not even one plot line sticks out.

Okay. Maybe one. I remember when Stacy peed the bed at a sleep-over only to find out later that she had diabetes. Nice plot line huh?

Anyhoo. I've been wondering what happened to these characters so next week I'm going to start a new series called, What Happened to the BSC? I'll speculate where and what a character is up to now that she would be around my age. I'll start with el presidente Kristy and work down.

Maybe Ann Martin will find me and ask me to write an adult series. Now that they're no longer babysitting are they still running into all that drama?

Of course they are!

It could be like an even hotter 90210 or Desperate Housewives or something. (This idea is totally going to be stolen... I have a timestamp on this baby, remember that thieves!)