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Nov. 3rd, 2007 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhyll[yesterday:]
I'm posting from the beautiful island of academic hush that is the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), where I'm currently typing up minutes on the seminar on food sovereignty that the GF is running. My head has been somewhat inflated by all the people coming up to me telling me that I type really fast - I've tried hard to resist going on about the wonders of the Dvorak keyboard and Ubuntu, with minimal success. (trust me, it only takes a second or two to make the slight jump of topic necessary).
Like conferences everywhere, it seems, the food is really good, and I'm meeting plenty of interesting people. I am constantly reminded, at these, how much I like talking to people who are studying things a few steps away from my own area, and how much I love talking about 'work' over (delicious) lunches.
Plus, someone just came and gave me some tea! Hurrah!
[today:]
argh. spent about an hour and a half stuck in traffic on the way back to the ashram from NIAS yesterday. And the accidentally finished reading The Red Carpet, and then had to start going over my notes and summarising them to give to the final speakers today.
Despite feeling a bit tuckered out, I am rather pleased with life right now. For some reason much of my delight comes from having seen a guy going for an evening walk, amidst the crazy traffic, in neatly-ironed striped flannel pyjamas.
I'm posting from the beautiful island of academic hush that is the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), where I'm currently typing up minutes on the seminar on food sovereignty that the GF is running. My head has been somewhat inflated by all the people coming up to me telling me that I type really fast - I've tried hard to resist going on about the wonders of the Dvorak keyboard and Ubuntu, with minimal success. (trust me, it only takes a second or two to make the slight jump of topic necessary).
Like conferences everywhere, it seems, the food is really good, and I'm meeting plenty of interesting people. I am constantly reminded, at these, how much I like talking to people who are studying things a few steps away from my own area, and how much I love talking about 'work' over (delicious) lunches.
Plus, someone just came and gave me some tea! Hurrah!
[today:]
argh. spent about an hour and a half stuck in traffic on the way back to the ashram from NIAS yesterday. And the accidentally finished reading The Red Carpet, and then had to start going over my notes and summarising them to give to the final speakers today.
Despite feeling a bit tuckered out, I am rather pleased with life right now. For some reason much of my delight comes from having seen a guy going for an evening walk, amidst the crazy traffic, in neatly-ironed striped flannel pyjamas.