I'm a real academic now

[charloween]

After months of anticipation, my first academic conference has come and gone. I'm still in the UK (at Gatwick), but the crazy Japanese-style capsule hotel I'm staying at has free wifi, so I can update! And be cowed by the state of my inbox. The important thing is that my paper was well-received by most of the people there. I don't feel like I wasted my time or money, I met some fun people, learned stuff and got to spend nearly two whole days alone at the end of it all (a needed people-buffer).

I'll say one thing for a Doctor Who conference... it's probably the only place where you'll hear a paper on the Lacanian construction of the self, go on a tea break, and then trade fic recs with one of the writers on Doctor Who. The entire week has been surreal but mostly awesome. One highlight was the paper that more-or-less mathematically proved that Torchwood was fandom crack... there was a picture of a half-naked Methos involved. thucyken, you should have been there. There were charts!

One revelation was that audience studies is a lot further along than I'd been led to believe. It's very exciting.

The horrible part, though, is that after four straight days of talking about Torchwood means that now I want to go back and watch it again. Even after everyone there agreed that it's a bad, bad show.

I'm off to another conference again in a few weeks, though not presenting this time. And it looks like I'll be getting some cash up fron tfor that, which will be a nice change. What with this conference, that conference and house-sitting for my sister, I don't think I'm going to be home much before January.



This time, the water tower thing was actually running, and not covered in strawberries.

okay, more pictures later when Photobucket isn't being a meanie meanie meanie meanie. We found the tourist info centre entrance to Torchwood, and there was a creepy-as-anything "Santa's Grotto" in the middle of the town. Alas. When I get back to Canada and my own internet connection (and my own time zone!) I'll post them.

Comments

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Thanks! My brother said that undergrads are holding anti-strike rallies, which is rather scary.

[omicron34.livejournal.com]

Yup...that is true....next thing it'll be the clash of the titans..choice of weapon...picket signs.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Don't forget - we have fire on our side.

[omicron34.livejournal.com]

Curses, flaming picket signs *RETREAT!!!

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

See? Grad school gives you that extra edge.