Oh cool, a rhetorician! As I say, I'm not an academic any more (although I still work for a university and present at conferences and stuff), but I love hearing about what people are doing in academia!

Thanks for your kind words about the friending meme. This is the second year I've run it, and, given the kind of uptake I've had both times, I'm definitely intending for it to be a Yuletide tradition, should people continue to engage with it. Dreamwidth is my internet home, so it's great for me to see so many people posting here and wanting to, as you say, build community here.

I've added you back.