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+title: 'Spring Broke'
+date: '2008-03-19T10:13:24-04:00'
+permalink: /spring-broke/
+tags:
+    - conferences
+    - work
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+Alarmingly, we’ve hit the midpoint of spring break already, and this is the first time I’ve managed to post. I’ve meant to post every day — really, I have — but what with one thing and another…
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+- One thing: a really nasty cold that began settling in, of course, last Saturday.
+- Another: the knowledge that these few days are the only bit of time to work on my chapter-in-progress for the foreseeable future.
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+Between having a head full of ideas about my project and a head full of best-left-undescribed other substances, I haven’t really given posting a second thought. The chapter is rocking along; I think I’m moving into the home stretch with it. And the cold is beginning to recede, thank goodness.
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+For now, though, just a quick update on my whereabouts for the coming weeks, partially by way of preemptive excuses for future lulls:
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+- Thursday and Friday, March 20 and 21: Fresno. I’m giving a talk at [a colloquium on the future of the book at Cal State, Fresno](http://events.lib.csufresno.edu/), which is drawn from the chapter I’m madly trying to finish; fortunately, the talk will primarily focus on the background materials, which are firmly in place.
+- Wednesday to Saturday, March 26 to 29: New Orleans. I’m giving [a talk at Tulane](http://www2.tulane.edu/calendar/caldetail.cfm?ID=59757) on Thursday afternoon, drawn from another chapter of the project, and moderating a panel on Pynchon on Saturday at the [Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival.](http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/schedule.php)
+- Thursday to Saturday, April 3 to 5: San Francisco. I’m giving a presentation at the [NITLE Summit](http://www.nitle.org/index.php/nitle/the_institute/upcoming_events/2008/nitle_summit) on my uses of Drupal and other web technologies in my teaching.
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+I’ll hope to blog some of the other talks at these events, which promise to be great. In the interim, however, back to preparing my own…
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