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hesperornis) wrote2004-10-01 01:02 pm
hesperornis) wrote2004-10-01 01:02 pm
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RenFaire Happiness!
Yay! Off to the Kansas City Renfest in approximately four hours! I just wish I didn't have to sit here in the GIS lab for three hours that I could be spending on packing and tidying my room...
Hee... Gordy told me two nights ago that he wanted to go all-out fancy noble to the RenFest, and asked me if he'd be able to put something together in time. I laughed. I barely had time to partially re-bone my bodice, which has been in sorry shape recently.
At any rate, I'll take pictures and one of these days I'll figure out how to post them on my website.
Oh, and professional meetings are _insanely_ expensive. Blah. Yet it is part of the politics of academia that I need to go and meet the experts in my field. And I've wanted to go to a Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting for a long time now. Thank goodness for a widespread friend network... Tom Birney and his girlfriend live in Denver, and they've offered to put me up for the weekend of the meeting, which will save me a ton of money. All the same, you'd think the coordinators of these meetings would realize that your average student--heck, even your average professor--can't afford to stay in an upscale downtown conference hotel for five nights. Tack on the cost of the meeting registration itself, and it gets almost prohibitive.
Hee... Gordy told me two nights ago that he wanted to go all-out fancy noble to the RenFest, and asked me if he'd be able to put something together in time. I laughed. I barely had time to partially re-bone my bodice, which has been in sorry shape recently.
At any rate, I'll take pictures and one of these days I'll figure out how to post them on my website.
Oh, and professional meetings are _insanely_ expensive. Blah. Yet it is part of the politics of academia that I need to go and meet the experts in my field. And I've wanted to go to a Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting for a long time now. Thank goodness for a widespread friend network... Tom Birney and his girlfriend live in Denver, and they've offered to put me up for the weekend of the meeting, which will save me a ton of money. All the same, you'd think the coordinators of these meetings would realize that your average student--heck, even your average professor--can't afford to stay in an upscale downtown conference hotel for five nights. Tack on the cost of the meeting registration itself, and it gets almost prohibitive.