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hrjI've come around to the philosophy that any all-day travel day where you arrive at your destination on the same calendar day as planned is a good day. I think I missed the goal if you count it by Kalamazoo time, but not if you count it by California time. The connection out of Phoenix was only 2.5 hours late, which got me into Chicago ca. 8pm and on the road with the rental car ca. 9pm. What with losing an hour crossing into Eastern Time that made it early Thursday morning by the time I checked into my dorm.
The trip was, on the whole, very pleasant, despite not having any chunk of time to sit and have a nice birthday meal at any point. (What the heck, I'm going to be going out to dinner with the gang every night, so it's not like I'm deprived.) I did have a celebratory airplane-bottle of Glenlivet on the second leg and celebrated further by buying a drink for my seatmate (because the credit-card processor hated his Canadian credit card and I was feeling in the mood to do something of the sort -- made the obligatory joke about it not being a come-on). We had a delightful conversation for about an hour after which I attempted a sleep-like substance.
Thunder and lightning all night and awake way too early in the morning. Hit the bookroom for the first crack at David Brown/Oxbow. (They always have a few things they've only brought one copy of, so it's worth hitting it first thing.) But I think in general I'm going to leave the book shopping for tomorrow, since I have all my responsibilities to take care of today (paper and the session I'm presider for).
For those who are new to my LJ as of this year, I've gotten in the habit of live-blogging the paper sessions I attend, partly as a way of sharing the conference with all my friends, but also partly as a way of helping me to focus more on the papers. (I'm one of those people who needs to fidget when I listen to lectures.) So this will be my completely subjective and impressionistic, often stream-of-consciousness notes on the papers I listen to (and the books I buy).
The trip was, on the whole, very pleasant, despite not having any chunk of time to sit and have a nice birthday meal at any point. (What the heck, I'm going to be going out to dinner with the gang every night, so it's not like I'm deprived.) I did have a celebratory airplane-bottle of Glenlivet on the second leg and celebrated further by buying a drink for my seatmate (because the credit-card processor hated his Canadian credit card and I was feeling in the mood to do something of the sort -- made the obligatory joke about it not being a come-on). We had a delightful conversation for about an hour after which I attempted a sleep-like substance.
Thunder and lightning all night and awake way too early in the morning. Hit the bookroom for the first crack at David Brown/Oxbow. (They always have a few things they've only brought one copy of, so it's worth hitting it first thing.) But I think in general I'm going to leave the book shopping for tomorrow, since I have all my responsibilities to take care of today (paper and the session I'm presider for).
For those who are new to my LJ as of this year, I've gotten in the habit of live-blogging the paper sessions I attend, partly as a way of sharing the conference with all my friends, but also partly as a way of helping me to focus more on the papers. (I'm one of those people who needs to fidget when I listen to lectures.) So this will be my completely subjective and impressionistic, often stream-of-consciousness notes on the papers I listen to (and the books I buy).
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