Well, I’ve been home for about 48 hours now, but it was a busy couple of days. Tuesday I had a full day of classes, well, from noon to 7pm; and today, I had an empty day but had some things to do, especially getting my ankle looked at. Oh, yes, sprinting across the Sydney airport on Monday morning, as well as the cold weather in Melbourne, resulted in a recurrence of the tendinitis in my left ankle. Which sucks. But it’s getting better, with hot packs and pills and so on. I’ve written a few posts that I’ll be …
Month: September 2010
One Down, and…
Well, I gave my presentation on The Host the other day. I didn’t read a paper, just spoke, which of course is a little risky sometimes, though usually I’m fine when I do that sort of thing. This time, the risk caught up with me, though, and there were a couple of lapses, but worse, because previous prresentations had gone overtime, I started out with less time than I ought to have had, and had to summarize the last third, on top of that essentially skipping the final chunk (about the ongoing duel between right-wing technophilic/globalization/developmentalist/minjok discourse and left-wing environmentalist/anti-American/resistance/minjung …
My Schedule at WorldCon This Weekend!
Ack, next time I need to make sure I click the right buttons and limit myself to one or two events a day. Since I’m flying out on Monday — and dubious about my ability to get there by 10 am on Sunday — I asked not to be on the two crossed-out panels. My name’s still on the program on the website, though, so the Sunday morning one is still, er, potentially happening… Sat 1300 Rm 214: (A) 1. SF and cultural studies in the Korean classroom (This is an academic paper about exactly what the title says.) Sat …