Just a short note to interrupt the no doubt by now telepathic game of Mornington Crescent being played on this blog…
I have give both my papers, one the the local conference and one to the international. It’s always really comforting when the leading historians in the field are sitting in your audience as you deliver some revisionary historical interpretation (in this case about Whewell and Mill)… and they’re nodding vigorously! Happened once before when I was criticising Ernst Mayr and one of his doctoral students, Jon Hodge, was in the audience at Exeter a couple of years ago.
This is the first time my talk was on the first day of the conference, so I can now go and get pissed for the remaining three days. I may not be back for some time. Also, I seem to have lost my power supply for the Mac. But fear not! I am alive, and will return to blogging anon.
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ckc (not kc) // July 14, 2009 at 1:54 am |
…so I can now go and get pissed for the remaining three days.
…ahh, academia…[conference impending]
fvngvs // July 14, 2009 at 12:40 pm |
“I may not be back for some time”
If you’re taking a bit of a walk, dress warmly.