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Love don’t play any games with me Anymore like she did before. The world won’t wait, so I better shake That thing right out there through the door. Hell, I still love you, New York. –Ryan Adams, “New York, New York” |
I am blue-state bound.
I’ll be heading back east to visit family and friends in December. And yes, I’ll be in Philadelphia for the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association at the same time as many of the folks who read this blog. I’d be happy to meet as many of you as want to get together at this annual shin-dig. Last year, I met up with Chuck and Kathleen in the hotel bar (and I met Steven Shaviro briefly).
This year there seem to be many more likely-to-attend-MLA bloggers who are aware of each other. With that in mind, I’ve taken the liberty of creating MLA Bloggers. If you’d like to contribute, send me an email.
Also, let’s all write to the organizers of the MLA to ask them to put the entire conference program online, so that misrepresentations of the work we do will not be quite so easy to get away with. What the heck, let’s all write MLA President Robert Scholes.
Bonus Links: “
The Academic Job Interview Revisited,” by Mary Dillon Johnson (via Prof Grrrrl).
It was a busy day, and Chuck left before we had a chance to get his picture.
 This is Mike trying to look silly. |
 This is me trying to look cool. |
Do I look like Dee Dee Ramone?
I ended up with some extra time at the tail-end of my Georgia trip, so this morning I headed to Georgia State University to visit some old friends. Mike, Chuck, and I went to lunch together and walked a few blocks around downtown. Man, Atlanta has changed so much in the ten years since I moved away, and GSU has changed even more since my time as a student here. We talked about careers, teaching, research, and the permeable membrane between academia and the rest of the world that is the blog. I’m writing from Mike’s office right now, and within minutes I will head to the airport. Class prep in the airport lounge, back in KC at 8:00 tonight, and back in class tomorrow morning. Adieu for now.
I’ve uploaded the pix from my trip to Manchester, England. There are not so many of them, once you take out the cows: about 60 in all. Particularly interesting, I think, are the photos of two exhibits from the Museum of Science and Industry: