My paper presentation this morning came off relatively without a hitch, and I now have several other likeminded individuals with which to engage moving forward. Let the academic conversations begin...

But, yes. For operating on only four hours of sleep, this afternoon went remarkably well! Doubleplusgood element: Kenyon professor Lewis Hyde is here in Cambridge as a Berkman fellow at Harvard. I did not know this before. I'm going to have to get him out for a coffee for a pint and pick his brain...