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Hello there! I'm an Old Millennial woman (she/her/hers) living in the U.S. I have been editing Wikipedia since 2004, when I was introduced to the project by Timwi.

My username is meaningless; it goes back to a long-held policy of mine to use usernames that aren't easily Googled.

On a personal level, I'm a big fan of road trips, lurking around museums and libraries, non-fiction books, and watching way more sports than can be healthy.

Interests
I have varied interests and don't tend to focus on specific topics, with a few exceptions:


 * Women's colleges in the United States -- I did a lot of the work building many of these colleges' pages, especially the defunct institutions
 * History of higher education in the United States -- related to the above, I'm deeply interested in the social and economic evolution of colleges, especially defunct ones
 * Indigenous peoples of the Americas -- I'm especially interested in Native New England, but also other Indigenous topics
 * Newspapers -- I've created or expanded pages for a number of smaller newspapers, especially ones serving rural and/or minority communities

I also try to do a lot of disambiguating, style clean-up, and categorizing. I am a fan of the Oxford comma.

I love using Citation Hunt to fulfill needed citations -- especially ones that can be answered with JSTOR or Newspapers.com, two of my favorite databases.