Augh, I'm sorry I didn't reply to this! Dreamwidth doesn't email me with comments, which I should have realized, but the whole thing slipped my mind. I have been happy to see your entries show up on my flist, though! I'm glad you are journaling again.

This is all so good to hear! I am really glad that this path has turned out so well for you, and offers so many opportunities! I will definitely look through some of the work you linked and tell you what I think, although I doubt my comments will be very profound! I think it's very cool that you get to pursue what is (relatively speaking) local history as well as more distant places and eras; that is the kind of thing that gets my excitement up, for some reason -- the cross-pollination of eras and histories, even just in the historical imagination.

I hope you will post about your various adventures this year! But if not, it is just good to see that things are going well and you're doing work that interests you so much. So yay!

P.S. re: posting under OpenID -- when did captchas get so hard??? geez!