Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Blog Archive
-
►
2012
(79)
-
►
May
(19)
- Wiley's Philosophy Spotlight
- Philosophy Blogs
- Department Meeting Rule #1
- Everyone's a Critic?
- Department Meeting Rule #2
- Department Meeting Rule #3
- Robin Gibb Posse
- Is it Wrong?
- Department Meeting Rule #4
- Donna Summer Posse
- Department Meeting Rule #5
- Department Meeting Rule #6
- A Plea to Academic Publishers
- Department Meeting Rule #7
- Maurice Sendak Posse
- Crap Websites
- MCA Posse
- Department Meeting Rule #8
- Department Meeting Rule #9
-
►
April
(14)
- Department Meeting Rule #10
- Films in Class?
- Somewhere in April time, they add another hour
- Everyone Gets a DVD
- Dick Clark Posse
- Reign in Blood Wine
- Someone in Austin Needs a Guitarist
- New APA Executive Director
- Note to an Underegraduate Student
- Profiles in Crappy Guitar Work
- APA Session Rule #1
- Mike Wallace Posse
- Book display
- Doom in Seattle
-
►
May
(19)
8 comments:
Attendence was very poor indeed, but the hotel is nice, and Minneapolis is gorgeous this time of year.
Attendance was extremely poor. Sessions were poor too. The smoker was about a 10th of the size of the smoker at the Eastern. The job interviewing scene was the worst I have ever seen at the central. Hardly anything going on there at all.
It did seem very sparse. Interesting, since Minneapolis came in third in the Central poll about preferred meeting spots. I wonder if this will dissuade the Secretary from following polled preferences in the future.
Of course, St. Louis (#1) and New Orleans (#2) are already scheduled. Maybe those will be different -- I predict the New Orleans meeting will sell a lot of rooms but the *session* attendance will still seem low...
Any conference-related shortcomings were more than compensated for by the Hilton's proximity to Hell's Kitchen, which may well have the best porridge on the planet. That's right: porridge.
The city itself was quite lovely, and while I cannot speak for others, I attended some great sessions. Claudia Card's pres address was really good too.
Not only does Hell's Kitchen serve up a great breakfast (I prefer the huevos racheros, but it's the homemade peanut butter that really does it), so did Keys--in fact, the food was generally great in the area. And, perhaps thanks to the low conference attendance, there was little wait at the best nearby restaurants.
Was there something other than food sampling going on at the conference?
Minneapolis happened to be nice this weekend... sometimes it's just crappy and they predicted snow for Sunday, which didn't happen.
Personally, I didn't go --I had important hair washing and bathroom cleaning duties to accomplish... and, frankly, the program didn't look at all interesting.
On the whole the program wasn't great, but I found plenty of people in my area with whom I could talk and drink. In fact, the less-than-stellar program gave us the opportunity to do a lot of talking and drinking without feeling guilty! And that's really what I'm at the APA for. I can read these papers any time; I want conversation. And beer.
Post a Comment