First-year project.

So I'm thinking about using this as a space to keep notes-to-self on my first-year project. I'm planning to make these posts friends-only, a first for this blog, because blow-by-blow reports of my successes and failures seem a bad thing to display publicly if I'm hoping to publish this some day, publication rules being what they are. If you're interested in reading and I haven't friended you, comment so that I know to add you. I don't promise that updates will be regular or interesting, but I do promise that the first thing I post will be an explanation of what I'm doing and why, and that I'll try to answer questions if people have them.