I’m happily settled in San Francisco. My German season is most definitely over, and so is this blog. It will remain here as a monument to my Fulbright year, but those of you who want fresh content should head to my new blog at ilanawb.tumblr.com. The posts will be shorter and less frequent now that I’m working a regular job, but I’ll provide semi-regular updates on my life as well as links to all my theater and opera reviews. (There will continue to be plenty of those, once the seasons begin.)
If you don’t have a Tumblr account and want to subscribe to my new blog by e-mail, I’m sorry. Tumblr doesn’t allow direct e-mail subscriptions. But you can use a service like blogtrottr to get e-mails whenever I post—just enter “ilanawb.tumblr.com/rss” and your e-mail address.
To wrap up this blog, I offer you some summary statistics of the year:
- I attended 38 plays in four languages (German, English, Italian, and Persian)
- I attended 44 operas in eight cities (Munich, Stuttgart, Salzburg, Berlin, Stockholm, Tallinn, Vienna, and Budapest)
- I performed in 1 opera in yet another city (Burgos)
- I danced at 13 balls (three in Munich, seven in Vienna, and three May Balls in Cambridge)
- I traveled to 16 countries, counting Germany and the U.S. (the others were Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom)
- I visited 10 cities in Germany and 26+ cities in the rest of Europe (depending on where you draw the line between a city and a town)
- I had 4 academic papers accepted at journals, all in very different fields (narrative psychology, feminist analytical philosophy of language, Spanish Golden Age and Romantic literature, and Italian pastoral drama)
- I wrote 138 posts on this blog, which I estimate at a total of 75,000+ words
- I wrote 35 opera reviews for Bachtrack and Opera Online, which I estimate at a total of 26,000+ words
- 3,111 people visited my blog at least once
- My blog traffic mostly came from Twitter, but the second-most frequent referral route was online searches, and the most common single search term (49 times) was “Kierkegaard in City Museum of Copenhagen“
- My most-used blog tags were “Regietheater” (26 times) and “WTF” (25 times)
- My most popular post was my flippant criticism of La Rondine
All in all, a good year! Thanks for letting me share it with you.
My German Season 