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+title: 'Homeward Bound'
+date: '2009-05-24T05:26:28-04:00'
+permalink: /homeward-bound/
+tags:
+    - conferences
+    - travel
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+Soon, at least.
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+It’s been a heck of a week: long flight into Boston on Monday, followed by looooong cab ride out to Norwood just after midnight Tuesday morning; phenomenal symposium on [the future of everything](http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=5735) Tuesday; train back up to Boston, followed by lunch with an editor, a glass of wine with a colleague, and dinner with a former student on Wednesday; the American Literature Association (which I’d link to, but man, they really need a new website, as this one doesn’t so much load as *download* — literally, it’s a bunch of Word documents) starting Thursday, including my own panel yesterday, sponsored by the [Digital Americanists](http://segonku.unl.edu/mediawiki2/index.php/Main_Page), on the peer review of digital scholarship. And, of course, a round of dinners and such with old friends.
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+It’s been amazing, but I’m exhausted, and looking forward to today’s long flights home, during which I hope to get the summer started, for real. Here’s wishing all of you a lovely Memorial Day weekend, and hoping that your summers begin well, as well…
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