So it's important that I can define myself thus, but the "thus" might require...like, a seminar, with diagrams. Possibly illustrations. That...would be hot.

Hee hee! That would be me when questioned about religion. Just add a couple teetering stacks of books in several languages, possibly including Elvish, depending on your footnote tolerance, and subtract the...no, never mind, we can keep the illustrations there, too. Better make it a weekend retreat. :P

Hey, were you ever going to give some fb about that D/H thingy?

Yes! It was very bad manners to beg you for it and then...have a teaching practicum. I don't want to give you a date, but I do mean to take it up before too long. I have a, "Yay, I get to talk to tkp about writing!" in the back of my head. It was interesting to read with both critical and fannish faculties turned on: parts of it I found utterly fabulous, and other parts I couldn't stand!

Night strolls, but not prowls.

The night prowls are actually quite like strolls: it's a nostalgic word, because at uni we would often bang on each other's doors when we were restless for one reason or another and say something like, "There's a moon. I need to go prowl around outside for a while."

I don't know what a marmot is.

It's a silly sort of rodent that lives in the mountains.