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On 5/9/15 7:50 PM, Mark Lause via Marxism wrote:
Conferences aren't supposed to be fun. They're supposed to be work. And work requires us to tolerate being bored and not falling asleep. If you have a strong record of attending conferences, employers and potential employers know that you will survive three years as the Humanities rep on the Blackboard development committee.
When I told my lovely wife that I was going to the second day of the left elect conference in Chicago on Sunday, she demanded that I spend the day with her instead. I tried unsuccessfully to explain to her that I was *really* interested in the proceedings to no avail. She put it this way. She never spends any time at an academic conference except to give her paper and then that's it. Why would anybody spend all day at a conference let alone two days as is my normal procedure for HM or Left Forum conferences? So I ended up walking around downtown Chicago instead with her. I might blog about my impressions of Chicago at some point. To me it was astounding that I could walk around the heart of a city for 4 hours and not find a single newsstand to buy the NY Times, let alone the Chicago Tribune. Book stores? Just one B&N. But what an impressive display of CVS's and Starbucks. Nearly as ubiquitous as NYC's.
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