A few bulletins from the front:
- On the train into the city, I accurately IDed all of my fellow conference goers. The dudes with beards and glasses were easy, the younger folk a bit harder. Still: carrying a garment bag and reading Harpers? A bit too self-conscious in one's hipster-dom (as if determined to recreate Williamsburg in Omaha)? Them's academics.
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As I was rolling self and suitcase into the hotel, an older dude somewhere behind me cried out in annoyance. I looked over my shoulder, and it appeared that he had stumbled, but it wasn't clear how. Whatever had happened seemed minor, so I kept walking--down a hall and around a couple of corners to the reception desk. Suddenly the man (bearded and bespectacled, natch) was at my side and shouting, "YOU COULD HAVE APOLOGIZED!" "Excuse me?" I said. "I tripped on your suitcase! You could have apologized!" "Well," I said. "I'm sorry that you didn't see my suitcase."
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Being simultaneously lazy and mesmerized by repetitive, time-sucking tasks, I scorn the iron and the ironing board provided in hotel rooms. Instead, I hang my suits up on the shower curtain rod and flick water all over them, smoothing out the wrinkles as I go. Would turning on a hot shower, closing the door, and letting the garments steam out be equally effective? Yes. Do I do this? No.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------I was shattered to learn that the promised panel on "gin culture" didn't materialize. I'll have to assemble an ad hoc committee to investigate.
7 comments:
You'll be even better able to identify the group of Penn grad students arriving stealthwise -- we'll be the elegant, attractive ones in ninja masks. (Why pay a hundred dollars when you can play acadaninja instead?)
See you Saturday, perhaps.
Okay - that was an awesome comeback! And I just dropped our friend J off at the airport yesterday so she could fly to GEMCS - maybe you'll run into each other!
Have fun!
With comebacks like that, you'll sound like a Philly native ;)
NO PANEL ON GIN CULTURE!?!?
That's exactly why I didn't go this year.
I love the unitarians comment. That made my day. And your suits always look lovely and wrinkle-free- I shall have to try that time-saving measure.
My word-verification was "disons" (as in "disons-nous ou est le petit reunion de gin culture?"
as if determined to recreate Williamsburg in Omaha
Hey! Philly is not Omaha, come on!
yours offendedly,
Z
Tulsa?
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