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May 1, 2007

@ yale in general, and other updates

Howdy peeps. A hearty welcome to everyone who was directed here as a result Chris Muir-related links at Jon Swift, Bitch Ph.D, and other places on the tubes. Have a seat; stay a while!

Actually, maybe you shouldn't. As some of the ebog regulars have no doubt noticed, blogging has been pretty slow here the last month, this in the main because I've been working a contract gig helping some radio pals think through their online stra-teeg-ery.

Usually I'm able to blog through deadlines and projects, but it turns out that west coast radio people get up at the crack of dawn (EST vs. PST), so starting around April 1 or so I found myself getting up earlier in the morning than I have gotten up ever. I mean, I am getting up earlier than I got up in high school to take a bus to an 8:43 (or was it :23?) first period, and this is coming from someone who is not what you'd call a morning person. It's been a bit of a strain, and among the many things that have had to give are, well, all of you. I'd say I was sorry (sorry!) except that what I really am is sleepy. (Sleepy!)

I will say, though, that it's nice being in an office again for a bit. Offices have funny, little internal lives of their own and there are people here to interact with who aren't baristas. (Also, at the risk of a broad range of improprieties, I will add that enclosed spaces full of smart single/not-single-but-bored people always have their upsides.)

Despite this burden on my system, though, I did find time to fly off to New Haven this weekend to participate in a conference at Yale Law School on open access. Much of the crew from Kenya was reassembled in CT for a panel - Open Access Literature - so I don't need to tell you that great fun and learning was had by all.

It was also fun to be back in New Haven for a safe, empowered spell. I've been back to Yale twice since I graduated in, er, 1990, the first time to watch a GF I was breaking up with graduate, and, the second time to attend a somewhat fraught reunion where not enough of my friends showed, or, worse, showed in the form of people quite unlike those I remembered. This weekend, in contrast, was conference-time, that special, oasis-like zone where everything is upside and everyone at least acts like you're full of useful and interesting things to say. I think could go to conferences every single week, but that may just be because I'm not an academic.

Posted by ebogjonson in the collective, on May 1, 2007 9:55 AM

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