So, I am beginning to forget what my own bed looks like!
After seeing The Boss in Manchester (listening to his whole back catalogue
right now), our lovely Minnesota friends came to visit for a couple of days
before the three of us headed off to the University of Leeds for the
Performance Studies international (with a small ‘i’ – I don’t know why either)
conference. It was four days of chat, listening to papers (a mixed bag but some
really great stuff) book promo. Three highlights: watching a great group doing
Kathakali Indian dancing in a swimming pool, an amazing paper on mass
performance in the French Revolution and a fun authors’ event with the good
folks at Palgrave. It was a pretty unusual conference for me but good fun and I
got to hang out with some great folks.
When I got back (10.30 Saturday night – academics are
slackers, right?), my fab brother and sis-in law were there with our niece.
While I had been sitting in darkened university seminar rooms all day, they had
been to a duck race and eaten ice cream. We spent Sunday together before they
headed back up the road to Auld Reekie and D and I went down to Northampton.
So, a few weeks back D won a competition. He never wins anything so it was a
bit of a surprise. Here was the prize: a day out with Lexus – chauffeur driven,
lunch at Heston Blumenthal’s pub The Hind’s Head, a trip on the Thames and a
night at Windsor races. Turns out we are pretty rubbish at betting (which I
found rather encouraging for two Presbyterians!) but rather good at eating a
mountain of food! It was a wonderfully unusual Monday! It also gave us the
opportunity to celebrate D’s 30th birthday which actually fell right
in the middle of my conference so I wasn’t even there to spoil him. We spent
the night in Northampton and sped back this morning to get to work. Phew! I
think I now have a few days at home!
My research summer is just beginning so I’m getting
everything sorted out in readiness. Today I worked my way through a raft of
emails, caught up with correspondence from the conference, rejigged all my
online profiles (website, academia.edu etc) and then carried on with a book
that really needs to be back in the library tomorrow. These preparatory days
are always fun and inspirational.
Oh, and a final congrats to our wonderful third years who
are now graduands after officially receiving their marks this week. Looking
forward to graduation now!
CSW
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