New York Tolkien Conference

[dawn_felagund]

In now under one week, I will be in New York for the New York Tolkien Conference, where I will be presenting with Oshun a paper titled The Borders of the (Fictional) World: Fan Fiction Archives, Ideological Approaches, and Fan Identity. If you'll be in New York next Saturday and want to attend the conference, tickets are available here for $11 pre-

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[heartofoshun]

I cannot do Friday night (it would be really hard--maybe not entirely impossible), but would love to have dinner after the conference. If other people prefer Friday, I will be sad if I can't make it, but won't be hurt or insulted! (I don't operate that way.) I would really enjoy seeing people also though!!

Wow! Need to get cracking and am having trouble waking up this morning.

(Or alternatively, you could come to Brooklyn Friday night and I would feed any or all of you.)

[dawn_felagund]

You and I can do dinner Saturday night even if no one else can, if you want! I'm there both nights, and I have to eat both nights, and I'd rather have company than not! :)

My train comes into Penn Station at around 6:30 on Friday evening. I don't know the feasibility of making it over to Brooklyn on that schedule; you would know better! :) I'd imagine it's far, especially during rush hour?

[heartofoshun]

It can be a bit of a trek. Although rush hour is faster than in between times--assuming you took public transportation. And you are uninitiated!

I still shudder to remember being stuck alone in one of the more remote outskirts of Mexico City at 2:00 a.m. in a driving rain and not sure if the combi (a converted VW microbus--usually blasting rancheros--that picks up and lets off passengers along a route) I was waiting for even operated at night. It did, but was almost empty and then the driver was creeping on me!

It's nothing like that to come to my house, but it might not be what you want to spend your evening on the night before a conference presentation. Definitely want to have dinner after the conference.

In case you want to live adventurously (Fare : $2.75) here is the trek to my house:

Approx Travel Time : 49 minutes (actually a little longer!)
From 34TH ST - PENN STATION
A train (EXPRESS)
Take the LEFFERTS BLVD-OZONE PARK bound
Train departing at 6:35 PM (not exact--they come when they come, but frequently at this time!)

[dawn_felagund]

49 minutes is nothing! You can see my Baltimore mentality at work here. Everything takes longer at rush hour, and Baltimore rush hour is a doozy. Why have extra trains at rush hour? That makes sense! And public transportation is slooooow in B'more. I took the light rail downtown once for a convention for work. It is normally a 35-minute ride on the weekend. Not bad. It took an hour and a half at rush hour.

It is also more expensive than $2.75, though not by much. But DC?? When we took the DC Metro to Alexandria for Midmoot a few years ago, I think it was something like $26 round trip for the both of us.

(Editing to add that the closest I had to the combi experience was also on the DC Metro. Bobby and I had gone into town to see a concert at the 9:30 Club, which is a very well know venue in DC. When the show was over, we ran full speed to the Metro station and barely made the last train. What city has public transport that closes so early that it's nearly impossible to use for a concert at a major venue?! A whack city like DC I

[shirebound]

I wish I could be there with you!

[dawn_felagund]

Me too! Well, someday I will be in your part of the world; I've never been, and that seems really wrong! :)

[rhapsody11]

Oh I'd wish...

[dawn_felagund]

Me too! ^_^ But when I'm back next week, I'll be doing some inquiry about a Mereth Aderthad so ...

[drummerwench]

Gosh, that would be so fun! Have only technically been "to New York" once as an adult (an afternoon while visiting family in Princeton ...). One day, I will actually go there!

Wish I could watch you guys present!

[dawn_felagund]

I love NYC ... to visit! I'm always very ready to return to my trees and my quiet and my relative lonesomeness, but I've had a blast each of the dozen or so times I've been.

(Of course, NYC is a bit of an easier trip for me than for you, although not as easy for me anymore as it was! :)

I am video recording our presentation, so everyone who can't make it in person can be there vicariously.

[drummerwench]

Looking forward to the video; also to the published papers!

[dawn_felagund]

It would be! I will keep you posted. The conference is at Baruch College, and my hotel is nearby as well, so I will probably aim to go to somewhere nearby.

[dawn_felagund]

I still don't have anything carved into stone for tomorrow evening. I have a few people I will maybe be meeting, and Anthony comments on this page that there might be a dinner meet-up for the conference as a whole. If you still want to meet, maybe it's best to just meet at Baruch after the conference? The last session ends at five.