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May. 13th, 2012 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
choco_froshOK. Kalamazoo's over. Uh, some highlights:
Squigamunk, I think you might appreciate this:
It was even cooler in person.
Straussmonster, I saw Scott H. He's now come over to the dark side, and also become a Communist. really. He also reports that having a job is actually forcing him to be semi-respectable: "It's terrifying!" So is the thought that my colleagues now have their own graduate students.
Oh, and of course there was lots o' free wine. (Although the guy who used to do mead tastings has retired from same, alas.)
I went to some panels. The ones that stick in my head were the ones on medieval textiles, and the demonstration of longsword fighting (slowed down so one could follow what was happening, and with discussion of the two 15th-c. manuals). Very cool. EVen cooler: Mini knife-fighting tutorial at the end of the session! [Yes, in my heart I'm really a SCA geek in some respects...]
Oh, and I think I gave a talk in there somewhere. To only about six people, but one of them said it was at least exciting.
And I hung out with some cool people. Unfortunately, none of them was both going in the right direction and had space in their car,* so I'm going to be getting on a bus again in a couple of hours...
* not surprising, inasmuch as most people are having to cram vast numbers of newly-purchased books into their cars, as well.
Squigamunk, I think you might appreciate this:
It was even cooler in person.
Straussmonster, I saw Scott H. He's now come over to the dark side, and also become a Communist. really. He also reports that having a job is actually forcing him to be semi-respectable: "It's terrifying!" So is the thought that my colleagues now have their own graduate students.
Oh, and of course there was lots o' free wine. (Although the guy who used to do mead tastings has retired from same, alas.)
I went to some panels. The ones that stick in my head were the ones on medieval textiles, and the demonstration of longsword fighting (slowed down so one could follow what was happening, and with discussion of the two 15th-c. manuals). Very cool. EVen cooler: Mini knife-fighting tutorial at the end of the session! [Yes, in my heart I'm really a SCA geek in some respects...]
Oh, and I think I gave a talk in there somewhere. To only about six people, but one of them said it was at least exciting.
And I hung out with some cool people. Unfortunately, none of them was both going in the right direction and had space in their car,* so I'm going to be getting on a bus again in a couple of hours...
* not surprising, inasmuch as most people are having to cram vast numbers of newly-purchased books into their cars, as well.
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Date: 2012-05-17 07:13 pm (UTC)