Hoorah, well, I will certainly post about that later. I think it's fantastic that you're gonna learn so much about this old place.
That all sounds quite interesting, especially the fiction - that's actually what I'm going to school for, writing fiction. I'm in a Creative Writing program, hah. It's a pretty sweet gig. I think you probably follow TV more than I do, but my use of music in fiction is probably different than yours. I'm not really into fanfiction either, except for really bad ones, like Face the Strange and My Immortal, because, well...how could you not love those trainwrecks?! My music definitely influences my mood a lot, and also my thinking. I've got a big habit of making everything I write fit to a soundtrack of songs for mood.
My passions are music, writing, religion, LGBTQ issues, feminism... I'm very political, and very much interested in religion and culture. Religion's my minor, and stuff. I try to incorporate all the stuff I like into my writing, but I usually don't have to, because my characters tend to turn out that way anyway. I'm working on two big stories right now, that are just finishing up the planning stages...about to start actually writing them; might end up using the newer one for something in my degree.