It was kind of exhausting, but nevertheless fun all the way through. Fandom definitely = awesome -- where else can a person geek out like this and not just be squinted at and shied carefully away from but instead have readers who also like it?

I've written a handful of fannish sonnets (and way back in my early Sentinel days a million years ago I wrote a couple of crowns of sonnets)

Are any of those on your website or online elsewhere? I bet they're excellent.