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So I confess I am not attending any of the Thursday 10:00-11:30 sessions because we got in to the hotel at 1am and none of the sessions was as interesting to me as sleeping in. This year's schedule is a bit light on the "OMG why are all these wonderful things scheduled at the same time?" sessions. I have at least one interesting thing pencilled in for every slot, but there are several where I wouldn't be heartbroken if I didn't make it. So it goes -- these things come in waves and trends and no doubt someone else's topics are all the rage this year. Every year seems to have some "emergent themes" where the zeitgeist converges coincidentally (or perhaps sparked by some common event a couple years previously) on a handful of topics. This year's emergent themes (based on a totally non-scientific survey whle browsing the catalog) are Melusines, Merlin/Magic, and Disability. Sorry, couldn’t make the last one alliterate.

So at the moment I'm lounging in my unexpectedly upgraded hotel room (the room we'd booked wasn't quite ready so they put us in a jacuzzi suite instead -- we may even find time to use it), setting up the files for the session blogging with titles and presenters, and waiting for my night-owl girlfriend to wake up so we can go complete our conference registration and hit the bookroom. Oh, and maybe breakfast.