Coulda been worse

So when your airplane is coming in over the end of the runway at O'Hare, and you're about 20 ft off the ground, and then suddenly the pilot guns the jets and pulls up at about a 45-degree ascent, it is a reasonable conclusion that you have just missed having A Really Bad Air Day. Turns out some other plane was crossing the runway we were about to land on.

After that, it's hard to get excited about having spent 2 hours on the tarmac in Salt Lake City waiting for permission to take off, discovering that my rental car company shuts down for the night at 10 pm (something they neglected to mention when I reserved the car), and finally making it in to Kalamazoo at 5:30 am.

Blogging Kalamazoo: Thursday Morning

Session 3: Hybridity and Medieval Britain

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Session 75: J.K. Rowling's Medievalism I

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Blogging Kalamazoo: Thursday Afternoon

Session 116 - Neomedievalism I: Alternative Realities

These are much more simply impressionistic synopses of the presentations rather than analyses.

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Blogging Kalamazoo: Thursday Evening

I succeeded in putting together a very pleasant dinner expedition that included nicolaa5, a woman I knew very slightly when she lived in the Bay Area (in the SCA) who is now doing graduate work in Santa Barbara, and a couple of Nicolaa's friend. Putting together successful dinner expeditions is so much more fun than moping about nobody asking me to join their expeditions.

Thursday's the only day they have an evening session of papers -- most of the evenings are taken up with social events, receptions, performances, etc. So ...

Session 164 - History, Patriarchy, Feminism: Responses to Judith Bennett's History Matters (A Roundtable) -- Various discussants ( Read more... )