I had to cancel going into Philly. I just felt blah and was tired and yada yada. I usually feel this way come Fridays, so I don’t know why I ever agree to try and do anything on a Friday anymore 🙂 As usual it seemed the plans were also falling apart as well, so I didn’t feel too terrible. The friend I was supposed to meet up with agreed we are terrible at planning these things, and we have a date for 2 weeks from now and we agree neither of us can bail. I have tentative plans, again, to go out with other friends tomorrow. We’ll see, I’m not going to hold my breath though. It would be nice, as by tomorrow night I’ll probably be nuts after writing all day.

I have an outline done for my paper to be given at the conference, now I just have to write it. I’m going to write out as much of it as I can tomorrow. In all honesty I can take everything I gave to my adviser this week, condense it a bit and use it. I will probably do that and anything new I can add in next week will be bonus. The main problem is I have 20 minutes to speak, and that seems like an eternity when you are up at a podium in front of a room full of strangers. I’ve gotten used to it through teaching, but I know I’ll be nervous. When I’m nervous I talk faster, which means my paper will fly by. I need to make sure I can come close to filling my 20 minutes. I might have to make some charts and stuff in a power point presentation as that could fill time. I have enough photos from all my fieldwork at musuems that I can include them as well. I’d love to share them on here, but I kinda don’t think I can. I’m pretty sure I might anger some people in power somewhere should they see them. They aren’t bad or anything, but they were taken basically for my use with my dissertation.

Dustin