Whew! Long weekend
Apr. 13th, 2015 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mala_14I got back last night from the Victorian Studies conference I attended. It was a lot of fun, but also really exhausting. It was great to meet tons of people who are so incredibly smart and have similar but diverse interests. I learned lots of fascinating things and heard so many great talks. BUT it's also super tiring for me to be around people all day, especially strangers, especially strangers who are prominent academic figures that I don't want to look stupid in front of. ;p
My presentation of my paper went well. It fit in well with the other two people's papers that were in the same panel. Also, I didn't throw up on my shoes or start a fire or accidentally drop a glass of water in anyone's lap or make a fool of myself generally, which was the number one thing on my list. I'd hate to go to my first conference and end up being the girl who threw up all over everything. Since that didn't happen, it was all a success. Plus I was in the very first panel, so I got to relax the rest of the time.
One of the profs that I am currently working for does Victorian disability studies, so we put on a couple of exhibitions of these 19th century embossed books for the blind. It was really cool and people seemed to really enjoy getting to look through the books and try to decipher the different kinds of type that were used (including Braille and Moon type).
I didn't get to see too much of the town, but we were in a nice hotel that was right on the waterfront. I had a room with a cozy king-sized bed all to myself. Things like food and taxi were rather pricey, but lunch and snacks were provided, so I didn't have to go out and search for food too often. And generally suppers were with the nice conference people, so I got to have more conversations with these smart people from all over the country.
All in all, good times! I look forward to attending again, hopefully next year when the conference will possibly be in my hometown. That will be super convenient because then I'll be able to come back home from school and attend. :)
My presentation of my paper went well. It fit in well with the other two people's papers that were in the same panel. Also, I didn't throw up on my shoes or start a fire or accidentally drop a glass of water in anyone's lap or make a fool of myself generally, which was the number one thing on my list. I'd hate to go to my first conference and end up being the girl who threw up all over everything. Since that didn't happen, it was all a success. Plus I was in the very first panel, so I got to relax the rest of the time.
One of the profs that I am currently working for does Victorian disability studies, so we put on a couple of exhibitions of these 19th century embossed books for the blind. It was really cool and people seemed to really enjoy getting to look through the books and try to decipher the different kinds of type that were used (including Braille and Moon type).
I didn't get to see too much of the town, but we were in a nice hotel that was right on the waterfront. I had a room with a cozy king-sized bed all to myself. Things like food and taxi were rather pricey, but lunch and snacks were provided, so I didn't have to go out and search for food too often. And generally suppers were with the nice conference people, so I got to have more conversations with these smart people from all over the country.
All in all, good times! I look forward to attending again, hopefully next year when the conference will possibly be in my hometown. That will be super convenient because then I'll be able to come back home from school and attend. :)
