Yawn

[hrj]

Yesterday's car negotiations set my evening schedule back about an hour an a half, but I decided I wanted to get the suitcase packed for Kalamazoo before going to bed. (I get twitchy if I'm not packed for a trip at least 24 hours in advance.) Getting to sleep at 1am wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't come bolt awake at 6am. And then today at work we had a "celebrate our recent successful inspections and audits" lunch party with pizza and BBQ. Food coma. My brain has now completely crashed. Fortunately, since I don't have any trip preparations to do tonight (except for printing out some new business cards and making sure the laptop gets packed) and since my flight isn't until 10 something in the morning (which means my regular alarm time works fine), I have half a hope of sleeping well tonight.

So here's my tentative session-attending schedule based on a first pass through the program book:

Thursday 10:00 Session 3: Hybridity in Medieval Britain (including a paper on Welsh multilingualism in Walter Map)
Thursday 1:30 Session 75: JK Rowling's Medievalism I (Arthurian themes in Harry Potter)
Thursday 3:30 Session 116: Neomedievalism I: Alternative Realities (medieval themes in pop culture, especially film)
Thursday 7:30 Session 164: Responses to Judith Bennett's History Matters (discussions around a book by one of my favorite historians)

Friday 10:00 Session 206: Costume in Chaucer (the perennial Laura Hodges session)
Friday 1:30 Session 271: Food and the Economy (various topics on food supply and culinary economics)
Friday 3:30 Session 318: DISTAFF I: Makers and Methods (first of the four DISTAFF sessions) ... although I'm also strongly tempted by Session 326: Women in Medieval Italy (I think that's my shorthand of the title, not the real title), which has an intriguingly titled paper discussing female same-sex marriage in 14th c. Tuscany

Saturday 10:00 Session 398: DISTAFF II: Clothing and the Church
Saturday 1:30 Session 442: Women as Lords (again, this may be my distillation of the title), primarily focusing on 11-13th c. French topics
Saturday 3:30 Session 506: DISTAFF IV: Extant Garments and Furnishings (followed immediately after by the DISTAFF reception)
Saturday 8:00 The Pseudo Society Session (naturally)

Sunday 8:30 Session 541: Women Warriors/Women and War (topics historic and literary)
Sunday 10:30 Sesion 558: The Wee Folk (because one of these days I have to make it to one of medievalist's papers.

Comments

[etfb.livejournal.com]

Wait - so you're saying Kalamazoo is a place? I thought it was a character in a Dr Seuss story!

Weird...

(Note: I used to catch a train past Woolloomooloo every morning and afternoon, so I guess I can handle a bit of weirdness.)

[hrj.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing you added that parenthetical comment, because my immediate reaction was: "Wait, you're from Australia ... you should talk about funny place names!"

[etfb.livejournal.com]

You may have a point (http://www.wallisandmatilda.com.au/those-names.shtml), but I still say there are parts of the US that have Australia beat (http://maps.google.com.au/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&q=Oconomowoc,+WI,+USA&um=1&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title)...

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Someday I will get to Kalamazoo. Most likely via organizing a session on logic...