Nice to meet you! I'm Katia, I've been floating in and out of the Chatterbox since 2011, although I'm tremendously not up-to-date on the general atmosphere of things these days. I like musical theater, 1400-page revolution/redemption/transformative power of love novels (or one specific one, anyway), and uh, I can't say I'm opposed to baby animals either! And I live in Tennessee, so uh, upper American South buddies I guess?

A brief crash-course in two important Chatterbox mechanics: since every post is reviewed by the admins, everything someone posts only appears on the chatterbox a few hours later to ensure it's all safe to read! Also, when someone comments on a thread for the first time, it gets whisked down to the back pages: the way to recover it is to wait untilthe first comment have shown up (otherwise it'll stay at the bottom!) and then go to the subcategory (in this case, Down to Earth) where the particular thread was posted. Right above the name of whoever started the first thread on the page, there's a link that says 'submitted by': clicking on it will sort threads by time. The first time you click on it, it may display threads from 2008 or so, so try clicking it again: then your thread will be one of the top ones on there, and to get it back up to the front page all you have to do is comment on it again!

This is probably horribly incoherent, but people usually make an effort to top pages that they've commented on; good luck, and welcome to the chatterbox!