Er. Oops?

There is something not quite right with my mind.

I'm not simply stating a fact which must be plainly obvious to anyone with whom I have a passing acquaintance, but actually declaring: there has to be something wrong with me. Why else would I volunteer (in a roundabout way, but still) to do for the entertainment of others something at which I generally tend to fail, and to do it in a particular way in which I have no experience? Caught up in the excitement of the meeting for the new Prim Perfect/Connolly Telegraph collaborative magazine, Primgraph, I cheerfully spoke up to offer my services. And was promptly taken up on the offer. And made a social correspondent. The recluse, who's never written an article before... *flail* I'm going to need to learn a great deal, and rather quickly, in order not to turn out to be a complete embarrassment.

Luckily, the subject does indeed interest me very much, and I'm looking forward to being able to work with some extremely talented people, and- maybe most of all- excited to have something valuable to contribute at last. Curiously, this gives me the opportunity to return to a project I'd begun a couple of months back, which involves one of my favorite guilty pasttimes: the categorization of data (mmmm, data)- in this case, a survey of the residents of Caledon and their activities and creations. The scope of Primgraph, of course, extends well beyond our 19th century shores, encompassing as it does all communities inspired by the historical period between 1740 and 1920- so, potentially, very large indeed. I'm only sorry that places such as Versailles and Al-Andalus will likely have to be excluded, but perhaps not from everything.

Much more on this to come, in any case!