I'll be here, roughly.
Just a quick note to let y’all know that I will be in absentia the next few days. I’m leaving early Wednesday morning for the National Popular Culture/American Culture Association’s annual conference, which is always schedule right before Easter weekend. (Like MLA is between Christmas and New Years…whut?) It’s in St. Louis this year–nowhere near as exciting as Amsterdam, but it will have to do.
With four days and hundreds and hundreds of panels to choose from, I’m sure I’ll hear something blog-worthy. But while I’m there, my web-time will be pretty limited. I’ll comment when and if I can, but I will be back next week.
Best wishes for the long holiday weekend, everybody!
My awesome prof is presenting there! She’s doing a paper on female agency and sexual pleasure in black romance fiction. Are you presenting?
Yep, I delivered my paper today. Small but appreciative crowd, with some good conversations after, cards exchanged, some discussion of a future project w/ a culture studies prof from RI about digital culture and materiality. And now I can just sit back and relax–see what I’m interested in, hang out, enjoy the sunshine. I gotta say, the weather here probably has it over Amsterdam, at least.
What’s your profs name? (you can email me, if you don’t want to post it.)
I had a roommate from St. Louis who was adamant that Panera be called The St. Louis Bread Company since that was its original name. If you such a sign, take a picture? And, of course, have fun!
If you have a chance, go see the museum under the Arch. And go up in the Arch. It’s fun.
have fun conferencing!
Can we access your paper?
mm–The paper is kind of shit, so no. It needs to grow up a little first. I think it went over well because I had great AV stuff.
cellocat–no time for the Arch this weekend, but I’ve been up a couple times, having lived in the Midwest growing up. Creepy little egg-elevators they have.
baraqiel–I’ll try to remember! (horrible with taking pictures. The Dude gets so frustrated when I come home with, like, two blurry shots of one of my nephews.) They were St. Louis Bread Company before they spread, but I don’t know if they’ve rebranded here in the city. I always call them Bread Co., anyway, since that’s what I knew them as for years.