Moving…

I finally got around to setting up a more cusotmized version of a WordPress blog on my site.  So I’m moving all these posts over there and I’ll be updating that site for now on.  The new address is: www.stephandfitz.com/inprogress.  That’s a lot better than this wordpress.com address, don’t you agree?

And I should have a more substantial post up soon…perhaps a review of Watchmen, book and movie? Stay tuned.

I’m really happy we were modern for a while, or am I being ironic?

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It’s been a week now since my first experiment in live blogging the NEMLA conference. Time flies when you come home and get back to work and imagine a life in which you have time on a week night to do something you really want to do. Let me say, first, I really appreciate all of those who followed the fun on the blog and on Twitter (oh, I’m totally in now, http://www.twitter.com/jfitz81). It really meant a lot that while I was in Boston and since I’ve been back people have been asking how it went and all. Really, thank you for caring.

As to how it went…well, it went…well. I mentioned in my grossly uninformative last post that we had what I referred to as an “African lit” size crowd. For the un-initiated, “African lit” means African Literature and was the subject of the panel on which I was presenting. And for the slightly less un-initiated, an African lit size crowd means that there were four people at our panel. To offer a little bit of perspective, however, there were over 15 sessions during the 3-day conference and each session had over 15 panels. As a rule I don’t do math if I don’t have to, but that means there was a lot of competition. And though my panel-mates (colleagues is probably a better, but not more humorous, word) and I are completely convinced of the awesomeness and importance of our subject, it turns out the authors that have movies made about them still reign supreme (freaking Sylvia Plath).

Live from the NEMLA conference Day 2

The next day – Sorry I left you hanging. In short, the presentation went well. Had an “African lit” size crowd. I’m back in JC now and tired. But I fully intend to provide more details very soon. Thanks for reading.

4:31 – Here goes.

2:57 – Just sat in on a panel about writing a cv and getting a job. Asked a question about “phd preferred” and found out I’m screwed til I get one. But I saw the dept chair from Endicott that gave me my first teaching position. Awesome. Also, I just ran into a prof from umass who was excited to dee me and who hooked me up with a lead for a future conference …by the way, I’m up after this panel. Yikes.