travel + catching up on other stuff
Sitting in the Toronto airport, where happily there is free wifi. Unhappily, however, I was told that my luggage from Indianapolis would check straight through to Amsterdam, but no, it did not--I had to retrieve 2 giant suitcases from the carousel and lug them between terminals and recheck them.
Turns out you need a lot of crap to live in another country for 10 months, so schlepping it all around is no easy task.
Luckily, from here it should check straight to Amsterdam, where I'm hanging out with my juggling/performance buddy for a few days before going to Estonia where my scholarship is letting me live for the next 10 months while I work on my dissertation. I think once I get settled in, I will be glad to have all the stuff I brought and I will be very productive.
Otherwise, I've been busy arranging my stuff in storage (unwittingly, 3 library books were packed in boxes but SOMEHOW Pan and I found them... in under an hour, even!) and traveling through California.
Oh, um, and the paper I delivered at the Digital Humanities conference in Stanford won a prize. Best newcomer to the field. My coauthor/friend and I were pretty much floored at that. The conference itself was also really fun... I've decided that all conferences should have a hash-tag and should be live-tweeted, because that makes conferences SO MUCH AWESEOMER. I'm quite happy that my dissertation ended up being a digital humanities project because I think it's a really cool field, and one I intend to continue participating in whenever I get the chance.
I got to spend some time with my family in SoCal, even though that time felt all too short... but I need to get to Estonia and start writing so I can finish in a reasonable time. I expect I'll resume posting once I reach Estonia next week. Any questions?
Turns out you need a lot of crap to live in another country for 10 months, so schlepping it all around is no easy task.
Luckily, from here it should check straight to Amsterdam, where I'm hanging out with my juggling/performance buddy for a few days before going to Estonia where my scholarship is letting me live for the next 10 months while I work on my dissertation. I think once I get settled in, I will be glad to have all the stuff I brought and I will be very productive.
Otherwise, I've been busy arranging my stuff in storage (unwittingly, 3 library books were packed in boxes but SOMEHOW Pan and I found them... in under an hour, even!) and traveling through California.
Oh, um, and the paper I delivered at the Digital Humanities conference in Stanford won a prize. Best newcomer to the field. My coauthor/friend and I were pretty much floored at that. The conference itself was also really fun... I've decided that all conferences should have a hash-tag and should be live-tweeted, because that makes conferences SO MUCH AWESEOMER. I'm quite happy that my dissertation ended up being a digital humanities project because I think it's a really cool field, and one I intend to continue participating in whenever I get the chance.
I got to spend some time with my family in SoCal, even though that time felt all too short... but I need to get to Estonia and start writing so I can finish in a reasonable time. I expect I'll resume posting once I reach Estonia next week. Any questions?