Dundee

That was a fairly remarkable experience… I walked into the restaurant where the pre-conference gathering was taking place, and I met about 5 people for the first time who I already knew from the blogosphere. A bit of a shock to the nervous system.

Most importantly, Levi is now the odd man out on editing! Nick Srnicek and I finally met.

Adrian Johnston there as well; never met him before, and now we are neighbors in this guest house.

Also there was a far more familiar face: ex-AUCian Reham El Nory, now at Middlesex. It was great to see her. She was never my official student for a class, but we had a super-fantastic Aristotle’s Metaphysics group in summer ’06 (along with Maisoon al-Suwaidan, now at Tufts). It was still probably the highlight of my teaching career, doing Aristotle with those two four years ago. And it wasn’t even an official class.

Conference begins tomorrow, and it’s a fine lineup of papers.