Last week I was at a conference and got to see my advisor and academic sister and it was lovely. I was perhaps a little boisterous but I was happy and couldn't help it ( Read more... )

I have to get up in the wee hours tomorrow (tonight) to head to the airport for a conference. Masochist that I am, I got my reminder for the shuttle, did some math, fretted at the length of time between projected drop-off and boarding (half an hour), and decided to Assume the Worst and rebook for an earlier time--so 3am instead of 4am. (Given that ( Read more... )

But 1) I don't have the energy, and 2) don't feel like wasting energy on people that don't deserve it. Suffice to say that I am Incredibly Annoyed at People Who Are Wrong on the Internet ( Read more... )

 I've spent the last couple days at ASECS, the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies conference; I sneak in because technically I do work in the long eighteenth century and also it has several book history-ish panels. Anyways, I chaired a panel and gave a paper, and both went well, even if the only reason I got a question at Q&A was ( Read more... )

So CSECS went quite well; I gave my paper and got several kind comments and some folks who are interested because of their own research. Through happenstance I met Don Nichols, a big Alexander Pope scholar, who had just finished a project identifying a "lost" printer of The Dunciad of 1720, which, turns out, was Susannah Collins. So he wanted my ( Read more... )

So we were already to leave and then they did their crosscheck and discovered there wasva brake problem, so they hauled the plane back to the terminal, dropped us off, and we're in limbo. Might get a flight out of here at 10, might not. SIGH ( Read more... )

Your gate changes and you still know EXACTLY where it is.

Why do so many people buy coffee before getting on a plane? I mean, that means you have to be awake during a time when you're squashed in a little chair with nothing to do. AND it makes you need to pee a lot.

I don't get it.

Dear Continental pilotss ( Read more... )

Or on it. Whatever. Y'know?


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