dateline: Kalamazoo
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hrjSo on Wednesday morning, I nearly had an alarm clock tragedy: when setting the clock for a 5am ring (too early, since I don't need to catch the Emery-go-round shuttle until around 6am, shuttle to BART, BART to Colliseum, Air-BART shuttle to airport, in plenty of time for a 9am flight) I somehow managed to dial down the volume. Fortunately, as is my usual habit when an early alarm is set, I cracked my eye open on a half-hourly schedule and noticed it was 5:15. Confirmed the alarm really was set for 5 and that I should be getting up, then did so. No damage to the travel schedule, but I always remember the time I'd set an early morning alarm to drive a friend to the airport and neglected to confirm that the radio station it was set to actually broadcast at that time!
Kalamazoo is being the usual history-geek-fest. I've spent entirely too much money in the book room, but I do that every three or four years. I'd love to do little mini-reviews of all the sessions I've been to, but I don't have much time at the moment since I volunteered to be a test-audience for my roommate's practice-presentation of her paper. As usual, the textile folks registered in a group so we got about half the 6th floor of Harvey Hall to ourselves -- enough to somewhat muffle the noise from our late-night parties if we hold the parties down the hall a ways. (All we're really doing is talking -- just lots of us, so it gets a little loud.) Maybe I'll work in the reviews on the plane going home.
So you know how back in November when I started this journal, I was listing motivations for starting an on-line journal and mentioned: One of the clinchers came earlier this year when my mother had a cancer scare and I found myself desperately wanting a way to shout, "AAARRRRRRGHHHH!" to the world in general without the individual intrusiveness of e-mailing or phoning specific people.
"AAARRRRRRRGGHHHHHH."
Turns out the recent pain in her leg is a "lesion" and the natural conclusion is that's another bone-based hemangioma. I keep telling myself that they seem to have zapped the one in the spine successfully and it's allegedly "benign". But still, AAARRRGGHH.
Well, time to go play audience and then off to the morning sessions. Today it's "Celtic names", "Where are all the medieval lesbians?", and the 4th DISTAFF (dress and textiles) session (whose specific topic I forget, but it's the one my roommate's paper is in). Then the pseudo-session in the evening of course and trying to balance staying up partying with getting enough sleep before my own 8:30 paper on Sunday.
Kalamazoo is being the usual history-geek-fest. I've spent entirely too much money in the book room, but I do that every three or four years. I'd love to do little mini-reviews of all the sessions I've been to, but I don't have much time at the moment since I volunteered to be a test-audience for my roommate's practice-presentation of her paper. As usual, the textile folks registered in a group so we got about half the 6th floor of Harvey Hall to ourselves -- enough to somewhat muffle the noise from our late-night parties if we hold the parties down the hall a ways. (All we're really doing is talking -- just lots of us, so it gets a little loud.) Maybe I'll work in the reviews on the plane going home.
So you know how back in November when I started this journal, I was listing motivations for starting an on-line journal and mentioned: One of the clinchers came earlier this year when my mother had a cancer scare and I found myself desperately wanting a way to shout, "AAARRRRRRGHHHH!" to the world in general without the individual intrusiveness of e-mailing or phoning specific people.
"AAARRRRRRRGGHHHHHH."
Turns out the recent pain in her leg is a "lesion" and the natural conclusion is that's another bone-based hemangioma. I keep telling myself that they seem to have zapped the one in the spine successfully and it's allegedly "benign". But still, AAARRRGGHH.
Well, time to go play audience and then off to the morning sessions. Today it's "Celtic names", "Where are all the medieval lesbians?", and the 4th DISTAFF (dress and textiles) session (whose specific topic I forget, but it's the one my roommate's paper is in). Then the pseudo-session in the evening of course and trying to balance staying up partying with getting enough sleep before my own 8:30 paper on Sunday.
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Date: 2006-05-07 06:37 pm (UTC)Argh indeed. I hope it works out ok.
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Date: 2006-05-08 03:44 am (UTC)