I'm glad to hear you're so busy and from the sound of it, finding it very satisfying. I think of my own time of writing fanfic as of finite duration too because I know that at some point this year I will have to get a full time job and then I simply won't have time.

I hope you can finish the Spike/Riley thing one day. It sounds interesting. As for me, I shall be in the fandom until the bitter end, I think. I'm not interested in being in 'fandom', only in the Buffyverse fandom.