Upcoming Travel
Confirmed and ticketed:
- August 10-15—Montréal; American Sociological Association.*
- September 28-October 6—Paris and Vienna; BlogTalk Reloaded.**
- October 26-29—Austin; Flow.
Tentative:
- August 18-23ish—New York (if meeting is scheduled).
- October 20-22—Portland; NITLE symposium on learning management systems at liberal arts colleges (if proposal is accepted).
Almost certain, but too early to make plans:
- December 18-25ish—Baton Rouge.
- December 26-29—Philadelphia, MLA.
- December 29-January somethingth—Paris. (Yippee!)
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*No, I haven’t changed fields; I’m on a joint search committee doing preliminary interviews there.
**The Paris part of the journey is both for fun and for economy, believe it or not. A roundtrip ticket from SoCal to Vienna is currently in the $1300 vicinity, and requires me to fly in and out of LAX, which adds another 3 hours to the journey, and is without question the worst part of the trip. I managed, instead, to get a roundtrip ticket on Continental from ONT to CDG for $1000 (still more than I’d like to have spent, but it has good travel times and is, alas, pretty much the going rate) and a roundtrip ticket on Air France from CDG to VIE for $175. And all the better, I save some money on hotels, and get to hang out with my pal Marcus!


10 July 2006, 6.22 am
We just got back from three days in Montreal. It was wonderful - let me know if you want some ideas about restaurants, etc.
S.
10 July 2006, 10.17 am
I’ll be in Philly in December as well. If I have any interviews, I’ll probably be at the bar drinking for courage; otherwise, I’ll be at the bar drinking in sorrow. Either way, I hope we cross paths at some point.
10 July 2006, 1.04 pm
Let’s make a point of it, E. Interviews or no interviews, MLA and cocktails are a necessary combo.
11 July 2006, 3.11 pm
Excellent–I’ll have at least one pleasant, friendly encounter to look forward to at the MLA.