That was a good Wiscon for me even if a) I would have liked to have been on more panels, but the topics/timing didn't work out for me b) I wish I had been sleeping just a little longer in the mornings and not waking up quite so early.
Also I wish that, although I did do better on the seeing people and having meals with them front than some times, I ( Read more... )

A cetain amount of ou sont les neiges d'antan? evoked by the Livejournal Wake last night.
Without LJ, I would not be at present at Wiscon. I would not be posting on Dreamwidth. I would not have published a couple of my more or less academic contributions and I very much doubt that 3 sentences for 3 weeks for Dreamwidth would have turned into an ( Read more... )

Even if sleep is still a bit disrupted and I fade out early.
Panel I was on went well (I think?) and have been to several, occasionally making a contribution in audience discussion time.
However, I missed my chance at nominating Evil Mother Incarnate at the Dead Evil Mothers panel - which sort of sprang from my more general thoughts about changing ( Read more... )

I shall be there - arriving Madison on Wednesday 23/5, departing am of Tuesday 29/5.
I was down to be on two panels - neither of them either my own suggestions or ones I'd originally put myself down as interested in - but I find that although I thought I was being very careful about not volunteering myself for panels which were outside the fairly ( Read more... )

Another afternoon in the British Library, gathering material (of which I probably already have far too much, but one boils it all down to make a savoury stock) for chapter I have contracted to write.
And while I do not think that the BL will ever become one of my fave places to Do Research, it has actually been going fairly well -
- though, I ( Read more... )

Got quite a bit done this week: more research completed at BL than I'd anticipated in the course of several brief dashes, even if I still have to finish organising the photos of documents.
Attended part of a conference and a seminar, and had a meeting about A Thing I've been asked to undertake in connection with Former Workplace.
Various calls upon ( Read more... )

But I did manage to get to the Occasional Afternoon Seminar In My Field of Interest which was a) in a location really very accessible to me rather than in the further reaches of the metroplz and b) on a subject in which I am particularly interested (though admittedly the discussion was largely geared towards the present rather than the historical ( Read more... )

The asking for December post prompts? Consider this made, anyway.
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I have been peopling in a quite unwonted fashion this week, though it was not entirely socialising - there was a meeting of the Council of the Learned Society I Have The Honour, if it is an honour, To Be On, midweek, and today there was a meeting with somebody to follow up a ( Read more... )

I decided to make an effort to go to a panel in the first slot of the day at which two mates of mine were speaking and which was on subject of interest. Very good, and the hedjog may have been heard engaging in discussion.
My paper was in a panel in the next slot, for which I arrived not quite late - the previous one rather overran and there was a ( Read more... )

Actually, although this was the last day and people have been leaving like whoa since the morning, it's been my day of wild amounts of social interaction, or, at least, catching up with (different) people at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as having the lakeside walk (which I thought I might not get to) with
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