on to Atlanta

It’s quite possible to commit to doing many different things. But there’s a price, and that price is giving up one’s vacations.

Back to Cairo, proofread the copyedited ms. of The Prince and the Wolf, and now the rest of my vacation (which I could have spent lingering in Scotland a bit longer) will be devoted to writing the paper for the OBJECT-ORIENTED ONTOLOGY CONFERENCE in Atlanta. It’s well worth it.

I’ll be meeting Levi for the first time, and all of the other speakers except Ian Bogost whom I’ve met once (in Cairo, last July). My father is coming down from Iowa; he’s a hippie rock musician turned engineer, likes reading my books, and has never seen me give a talk before.

After the conference, I’ll be exploring Georgia and South Carolina a bit. Those are two of the thirteen U.S. states where I’ve never been. (I don’t count my one time passing through the Atlanta airport.)

The other states where I’ve never been: Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Hawaii.

South Dakota is a rather absurd lacuna, given that it borders Iowa, after all. I just somehow never got around to going there.