I love this.

I wandered in here thanks to Topic!Cindy, who I knew from another board. I'm 37, my third child is not quite six months old, I'm realizing that post-partum depression might be something a little longer lasting, and I'm tired of talking to my local friends about parenting and nothing else.

Wow, throwback thread!

It has been a couple weeks since 9/11 and I can't bear to watch tv anymore so I am searching the internet for distraction and find Spike's Bitches. My kids are 7 and 9 and the amusing pron and smart banter is perfect diversion. Super excited to meet these people in Chicago next year!

I'm in my late thirties and I'm going through a very difficult divorce with my four year old son. I used to be a magazine editor but I've been working for a law firm lately. I'd like to get back to writing but I'm not sure how to make that happen. I have no idea how I'm going to manage single-parenthood; I worry how the divorce will affect my son. Not sure if I'm going to be able stay in San Francisco. I've wandered over from the the Divorce thread and the Buffy Quotes thread catches my attention. This show is funny! I should watch it. Betsy is intimidatingly cool and smart and together.

I saw this URL in something about saving Firefly and came to see what was what. Found my people.

I'm almost 40, living with my partner and our cat (singular). It's 9/11, and I can't deal with the news coverage that my partner insists on watching. I get on the computer and check out the boards where I've been lurking for months. It's finally time to start talking.

What year did the Buffy thread start on TT?

Buffy went on the air in March, 1997, and the TT thread started in May.

Hi. I'm...not as different as I would like to be, but I have better hair(and sadly a worse wheelchair) since I joined the board. After a few years, I could get my stories published, ignore the crazy peopleor fight with them and actually post some of the curse words that can be mainstays in my spoken speech.(That year, I was really concerned about how much to let gimptitude influence what I posted...was "coming out" the right way to go?)

OK, so now I had to go back and read the first TT thread from the archives. There are only a few posts in 1997, and traffic was pretty slow through 1998. Discussion didn't really pick up until S3, and finally there's a burst of traffic at the end of S3. I'm looking for the first posts of active Buffistas I can recognize, and it seems a bunch of us all started posting within a few days of each other:

Dana D. - 07:27 am PST - Nov 25, 1998 - #442 of 4014

(I assume this is our Dana?)

Vortex - 01:34 pm PST - Feb 11, 1999 - #787 of 4014

Katie P - 01:29 pm PST - Jun 1, 1999 - #1594 of 4014
David J. Schwartz - 10:19 am PST - Jun 3, 1999 - #1647 of 4014
Holli M. - 12:54 pm PST - Jun 3, 1999 - #1649 of 4014
Tom Scola - 06:49 am PST - Jun 4, 1999 - #1678 of 4014
Madrigal Costello - 01:52 pm PST - Jun 10, 1999 - #1793 of 4014

I think we should delurk as the people we were when we joined the board.

How happy I am that I am no longer that person, let me count the ways!