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talitha78 (good times!) and then killing more time with a late-late screening of the new Jane Eyre (so much pretty*). (Technically) Sunday morning: back to the airport, and then Adventures in Dulles, and then FINALLY back to London.
*no, really. Lots of pretty. Everyone, but especiallysesquipedaliatic and goodbyemyfancy: see this movie.
Back, that is, too late to catch a train properly home, so I crashed in London, where I woke up to the household rushing off to cheap pancakes at a chain pub for breakfast. I went with! Yay cheap pancakes!
Finally got home this afternoon (departing from Paddington is £13 less and takes 10 fewer minutes than going from Euston: these are my learnings), where I've showered, done laundry, knit a little and prodded at my inbox.
The conference was amazing: lots of professional opportunities, valuable networking, viable avenues for publication (including, very slightly possibly, filling a gap in an edited collection if I can get 5000 words together for Friday to send off), and good opportunities for socializing and imbibing regional specialities on a riverside patio. [ETA: Panels ran from 8am to 9:45pm. At one point there were 47 simultaneous sessions so it wasn't hard to feel like we'd accomplished nothing even though we accomplished a lot.]
It's amazing the volume of professional development one can achieve while motivated and on 4 hours' sleep.
When I finally checked my school email, I found that a) I got a paper accepted for a conference in Scotland this June and b) the journal I submitted to last week noticed a few keywords in that paper and have asked me to review another submission for the same special issue. I've now been emailed by two people I cited in my MA (without me emailing them first).
Thanks to the conference's Friday night programming special, I've had the Dr Horrible songs in my head for days. "Brand New Day" is not something to sing under your breath while going through airport security. I hummed it instead.
This week should be relatively quiet; just a few things on (like seeing Macbeth at the RSC, yay flatmate-with-comps!). The week after is my Week of Awesome (and Moving). After that it'll be in the neighbourhood of mid-May. I should really figure out when I'm going to Portugal... June?
talitha78 (good times!) and then killing more time with a late-late screening of the new Jane Eyre (so much pretty*). (Technically) Sunday morning: back to the airport, and then Adventures in Dulles, and then FINALLY back to London. *no, really. Lots of pretty. Everyone, but especially
sesquipedaliatic and goodbyemyfancy: see this movie.Back, that is, too late to catch a train properly home, so I crashed in London, where I woke up to the household rushing off to cheap pancakes at a chain pub for breakfast. I went with! Yay cheap pancakes!
Finally got home this afternoon (departing from Paddington is £13 less and takes 10 fewer minutes than going from Euston: these are my learnings), where I've showered, done laundry, knit a little and prodded at my inbox.
The conference was amazing: lots of professional opportunities, valuable networking, viable avenues for publication (including, very slightly possibly, filling a gap in an edited collection if I can get 5000 words together for Friday to send off), and good opportunities for socializing and imbibing regional specialities on a riverside patio. [ETA: Panels ran from 8am to 9:45pm. At one point there were 47 simultaneous sessions so it wasn't hard to feel like we'd accomplished nothing even though we accomplished a lot.]
It's amazing the volume of professional development one can achieve while motivated and on 4 hours' sleep.
When I finally checked my school email, I found that a) I got a paper accepted for a conference in Scotland this June and b) the journal I submitted to last week noticed a few keywords in that paper and have asked me to review another submission for the same special issue. I've now been emailed by two people I cited in my MA (without me emailing them first).
Thanks to the conference's Friday night programming special, I've had the Dr Horrible songs in my head for days. "Brand New Day" is not something to sing under your breath while going through airport security. I hummed it instead.
This week should be relatively quiet; just a few things on (like seeing Macbeth at the RSC, yay flatmate-with-comps!). The week after is my Week of Awesome (and Moving). After that it'll be in the neighbourhood of mid-May. I should really figure out when I'm going to Portugal... June?
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