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Days until Kalamazoo* Conference: 23
Length, in pages, of paper that I am giving at the conference: 10
Pages written: 0
Session in which I am giving the said paper: 1
Number of hours of previous day spent in car (est.): 13
Specialized computer programs required (ideally) to create paper: 1
Programs for this purpose that I have found that are Mac compatible: 0
Problems encountered getting around this issue:
- Request to download PC program to Statlab computers denied.
(Statlab guy suggests downloading Virtual PC)
- Virtual PC download site requires contacting Yale Office for download clearance
- ...and then the instruction "Hit Start, then Run...
- Macs (at least on OS X) do not have a Start bar.
(Emailled relevant office to tell them (more politely) that they are idiots, and ask wtf do I do now?)
Number of Yalies originally planning on going to Kalamazoo: at least 8
Number of other Yalies actually going to Kalamazoo: 3
Of these, number who have an available car: 0
Cost of car rental: depressingly high
Free Wine Hours at Conference: nightly
Old friends from Toronto, Vagantes and elsewhere likely to attend: numerous
Cool papers: many
Ratio of cool papers to papers that will, for one reason or another, drive you mad: > 1 : 3.
Opportunities for shameless networking and raising my academic profile: pretty good
Boogying on down to Rock Lobster at the infamous Dance: priceless.
Update Oh, and my roommate just bailed. F'. And early registration's closed, so they may end up sticking me in a single, and billing me accordingly. @£$%^&*!
* For those who don't know: that's the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, held every year in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It has...something of a reputation.
Length, in pages, of paper that I am giving at the conference: 10
Pages written: 0
Session in which I am giving the said paper: 1
Number of hours of previous day spent in car (est.): 13
Specialized computer programs required (ideally) to create paper: 1
Programs for this purpose that I have found that are Mac compatible: 0
Problems encountered getting around this issue:
- Request to download PC program to Statlab computers denied.
(Statlab guy suggests downloading Virtual PC)
- Virtual PC download site requires contacting Yale Office for download clearance
- ...and then the instruction "Hit Start, then Run...
- Macs (at least on OS X) do not have a Start bar.
(Emailled relevant office to tell them (more politely) that they are idiots, and ask wtf do I do now?)
Number of Yalies originally planning on going to Kalamazoo: at least 8
Number of other Yalies actually going to Kalamazoo: 3
Of these, number who have an available car: 0
Cost of car rental: depressingly high
Free Wine Hours at Conference: nightly
Old friends from Toronto, Vagantes and elsewhere likely to attend: numerous
Cool papers: many
Ratio of cool papers to papers that will, for one reason or another, drive you mad: > 1 : 3.
Opportunities for shameless networking and raising my academic profile: pretty good
Boogying on down to Rock Lobster at the infamous Dance: priceless.
Update Oh, and my roommate just bailed. F'. And early registration's closed, so they may end up sticking me in a single, and billing me accordingly. @£$%^&*!
* For those who don't know: that's the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, held every year in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It has...something of a reputation.
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Date: 2007-04-17 01:54 pm (UTC)/curmudgeonous rant
Good luck with the software idiocy.
-g