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I met a very charming and brilliant young woman from Turkey on the flight from Salt Lake to San Fran, hung out with her there and then again today \ud83d\ude42 The weather is, of course, perfect. The conference has just 1400 attendees, so it\u2019s cozy \u2013 not like the 2500 I had expected. Also I received an email from a professor at York U in Canada looking to share a room (out of the blue) and so will have a roommate starting today.<\/p>\n

Lots of netw0rking\/sharing ideas already over\/after breakfast with brilliant people (one a very lovely half Italian\/half Asian woman) and even a contractor, \u201cI pound nails\u201d (a husband of a presenter).<\/p>\n

As I mentioned to my friend Ali before leaving, it is shaping up to be an \u2018orgy of the mind\u2019. Whether that\u2019s a necessarily good thing, I won\u2019t say. The keynote talk, a sort of \u2018state of the humanities\u2019 was downbeat: we don\u2019t listen to classical music any more, we just follow market trends, people don\u2019t read books, sob sob sob\u2026 And the guy called PostModern theory \u2018damaging\u2019 to the humanities\u2026. hmm\u2026. He also refered to himself as a trogolodite, so go figure\u2026<\/p>\n

OK, time is up \u2013 life is good.<\/p>\n

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