And the matter has been vacated so I’m done

That was fast!

Meeting Buffistas is yet another of the hundreds of times I wish I had a better story or something. Like Trudy, I just hung out on TT a lot, even before I ever watched Buffy. I talked to quite a few people here in my internet-newbie pre-Buffista headspace and probably you don't remember it and that is pretty okay with me because I got to do the impossible and make a second first impression.(That version of me is probably archived in the Wayback Machine still waiting for an engraved invitation to take part in online conversation--yes, there were a lot of "Have a nice summer!" in my yearbook-- now, I wonder if I shouldn't have leaned into it and got the assassin training, but I digress.) "When I first met you, you were like "oh, dear, I burned the muffins...now you go into a bar and sailors come out"--only online, so far, we'll see how Adaptive Menopausal Zest shakes out.

I had found Mother's Who Think on Table Talk, and created my own thread on Divorce/Separation With Children as EM and I were separating.

So I had a lot of daily activity there and slowly explored other TT threads. It was actually the Buffy Quotable thread that convinced me to try the show since everything was so witty.

Picked up watching the show in S4. Wound up buying bootlegged VHS tapes from some random dude at college in Utah, so that was the complete run up until that point (S1-4). Was very excited to see Vampire!Willow.

First posted in the second Buffy thread on TT (1999 or early 2000). I posted a spoiler. My first response there was Dana yelling "My eyes! My eyes!" in response to my spoiler. Dana and Vortex were the first two regular posters that I associate with joining.

First met JZ at her Season 5 Finale party at her apartment in Berkeley (Met Matt & Beth there too).

First started hanging out with JZ after borrowing a tape from her for a missed show and we realized she worked three blocks from my apartment.

I was reading Salon and spending too much time on the boards...

Yep. Not sure how I stumbled on the Buffy threads in particular but I’m guessing it was 98ish.

I still mostly lurk, but I think I discovered the Salon boards when "Earshot" was pulled at the last minute and I was looking all over the place for where I might find it online. Not that anyone here would actually tell someone how to violate the copyright laws.