Thanks. I am trying to keep that all in mind, but I'm not quite ready to give up on museums just yet. It has only been a month and a half, and there are places I've applied that I haven't heard back from yet.

There will probably be some kind of proceedings from the conference, at least, yes. i have enough friends with academic library access still that I could at least get that if I wanted, but it's not quite the same thing, alas.