12 May 2026

Hello, dear reader. It gladdens me greatly to say that this blog post marks the one-month anniversary of the starting of this blog. While in the grand scheme of things this might hopefully be something of an insignificant milestone, it is one I still feel is worth celebration. If indeed this blog does continue for a long time, you my reader should expect more commemorations at the six month and year mark, unless I happen to forget, as I am wont to do. There would be none more pleased than I, should this blog manage to persist to such dates.

As part of my one-month commemoration, I will be for the first time sharing this blog more openly and publicly. If, you are one such reader, I bid you welcome, and it is my hope that this blog is to your liking and you see fit to return here regularly. I do not have an regular posting schedule yet, however I do try to post at least 2-3 times a décade (or, if you prefer, 1-2 times a week).

Now, before I send you off dear readers, there is one more matter I would like to attend to : that of my capstone paper. I believe I have already discussed it for some amount of time in earlier blogposts, but for my university’s degree in history, which I am currently working to achieve, one must write a twenty-page history paper. The paper can be on any historical subject the undergraduate students wish, and they are responsible for all research, analysis, and argumentation they make on the subject. I wrote my capstone paper on the queer community of my city, and how it was affected by the Stonewall Uprising in June 1969 (Messidor 177).

While I have yet to give my presentation on the research at my university’s symposium, it has excited me greatly to learn that I have received a 91% grade on the paper itself. There is, I must confess, some perfectionist part of me which is saddened to not have achieved 100%, the news of my grade was electrifying, to say the least. My only hope yet is that I find courage enough to properly present the topic, though this development has lessened my worries greatly.

With that, dear reader, it seems that time has gotten away from me and I must take my leave. As always, thank you for your time and farewell until next we meet.