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Greetings from Chicago
Feb. 13th, 2009 01:56 pmWell, here I am in Chicago at the AWP conference. We've been having a good time -- rode the Megabus on Wednesday, getting dropped off near Union Station just a scant mile from our hotel. Brogdon, Maria and I are staying at the Palmer House, and.. god, y'all, that's some swanky swank there. One of our fellow conference-goers (who is wisely staying at the Travelodge; we booked our room before we found that the department was cutting our funding) calls it the four-dollar-banana hotel, for lo, that is the price of a banana on the room service menu. But it's also absolutely gorgeous, and really with the conference rate it's affordable, even if not super-cheap. No use crying over spilt milk, so I might as well just enjoy the luxury :)
Yesterday, the first day of the conference, I was a bad conference-goer. I didn't even bother to show up to registration, much less attend any panels or talks. Instead, Brogdon, J-Love, Annie and I went to the Shedd Aquarium. It was SO MUCH FUN. The exhibits are very well laid out, they have a great variety of different ecosystems represented (everything from the Amazon to the Mekong to the Caribbean to Lake Michigan wetlands), and at 17.95 for all that and a 15 min Planet Earth short on a big screen, it was totally worth it. When I die, I want to come back as a Leafy Sea Dragon, is all I'm saying.
( we continue exploring... )
( ...and then I talk a long time about queer poetics. )
And now back to rough drafts.
Yesterday, the first day of the conference, I was a bad conference-goer. I didn't even bother to show up to registration, much less attend any panels or talks. Instead, Brogdon, J-Love, Annie and I went to the Shedd Aquarium. It was SO MUCH FUN. The exhibits are very well laid out, they have a great variety of different ecosystems represented (everything from the Amazon to the Mekong to the Caribbean to Lake Michigan wetlands), and at 17.95 for all that and a 15 min Planet Earth short on a big screen, it was totally worth it. When I die, I want to come back as a Leafy Sea Dragon, is all I'm saying.
( we continue exploring... )
( ...and then I talk a long time about queer poetics. )
And now back to rough drafts.
