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March 6, 2004
SCMS at Home
There's something incredibly strange about attending a major conference in your hometown. I still can't quite figure it out, and I'm too exhausted to put much effort into it. But I feel a little disoriented by the distinction between being at the conference and coming home to my "normal life" at the end of the night. It makes the conference feel a little less real than it otherwise might. Not that I'm complaining. I like the idea that I could stop off at "my" liquor store on my way home from the conference or that I'm able to enjoy the whole conference without paying for airfare or a hotel room. Still, it's a little strange to have these two aspects of my life crash into each other.
I think that what makes things doubly strange is that when I was a teenager, my parents' church denomination had their quadrennial convention in the Omni complex, and I keep having flashbacks to hanging out in the very same hotel lobby when I was fourteen years old. I'll have more to say about the papers later, but so far, I've enjoyed most all of the panels I've attended.
Posted by chuck at March 6, 2004 12:06 AM
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