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to do before tomorrow: finish packing, water my plants, fix the hole in my coat pocket, get to bed early! ooh, also have to remember to hit the atm for cash for cab, food, books. should also pick up some mini shampoos, don't think i've got any. i also want to get a new notebook-to-carry-around, because my current one still has all my job-search stuff in it which i don't need anymore and which i don't want to throw out because it could still be useful to somebody someday and most of the pages are taken up anyway. so to get: shampoos, and a notebook.
also tonight: TOP MODEL SEASON FINALE!!!1!!
if i can get to work by 8:00 tomorrow morning, i'll be able to put in 4.5 hours or so (and if i stay a little late tonight, i'll be able to put down for 5 or 6 hours, which would be nicer than taking a straight half-day). i'm figuring i'll leave work by 12:00-12:30, go home, get some lunch and my suitcase, and leave for the airport by 2:00. get to the airport by 3:00ish, flight departs at 5:17. i should be able to get to the hotel in chicago by... 9? if the plane lands at 7:11, then i go through baggage claim for my suitcase, then i get a taxi. sounds about right. stina should be there by then, i would think. i printed off the schedule of events for the conference (oh printer, how do i love thee--you even double-side!) and highlighted all the things i think i really want to go to. i'll need to remember to pack books i already own from writers i know i'm going to see so i can get them signed. i've already got my kim addonizio books in my suitcase. oh, and i checked the weather for chicago for this week and it's supposed to be in the high 50's, nicer than it'll be here even. w00t.
my only problem with these things, and it's a problem every year, is that they schedule so many good sessions at the same time. i want to go to a lot of poetry sessions, obviously--there's sessions on poetry and history, poetry and research, women poets, women in poetry, the erotic in poetry, poetry and travel--all of which i want to go to, but then there's also more practical sessions like publishing your poetry, literary magazines, finding non-teaching career opportunities. so how do i choose between a Li-Young Lee reading and a session on Travel and the Poet? or--and this is the tough one--a session on putting together your book manuscript versus "Writing from the Wet Spot: Where Flesh and Words Collide." the problem is the sessions on saturday, of course; it's like they scheduled all the boring ones for thursday and all the really good ones for saturday. and saturday, coincidentally, is the time when the bookfair sale gets really good because all the vendors want to unload their stuff instead of lugging it home again, so they mark everything down and hand tons of stuff out for free. you want a bunch of free time early on saturday afternoon to walk around get good deals before the vendors pack up. but on saturday, i've got marked off two good sessions at 9:00, one at 10:30, two at 1:00, and two at 2:30. and the the bookfair'll be absolutely mobbed at lunchtime. i'm hoping that Li-Young Lee will be the first reader at 1:00 on saturday, so i can sneak out to the other session after he's done. which means, though, that i won't get my books signed. then again, i haven't liked much of Lee's recent work *at all*, so maybe i'll skip his reading... but i liked his earlier work so much i want to give him another chance... anyway, having to choose is a delicious pain because there's so much i'm excited about doing. oh, and poetry magazine is having a special deal for AWP conference attendees--$17.50 for a year's subscription. there might even be a free t-shirt. i'm not worried about the bookfair--i'll probably spend quite a lot of time walking around there earlier in the week so i can plot my attack for saturday afternoon and know where i'll need to hit.
oh man. i am *so glad* i decided to go to this. and i'm glad jorn found a conference that's as fun for him as this is for me.
also tonight: TOP MODEL SEASON FINALE!!!1!!
if i can get to work by 8:00 tomorrow morning, i'll be able to put in 4.5 hours or so (and if i stay a little late tonight, i'll be able to put down for 5 or 6 hours, which would be nicer than taking a straight half-day). i'm figuring i'll leave work by 12:00-12:30, go home, get some lunch and my suitcase, and leave for the airport by 2:00. get to the airport by 3:00ish, flight departs at 5:17. i should be able to get to the hotel in chicago by... 9? if the plane lands at 7:11, then i go through baggage claim for my suitcase, then i get a taxi. sounds about right. stina should be there by then, i would think. i printed off the schedule of events for the conference (oh printer, how do i love thee--you even double-side!) and highlighted all the things i think i really want to go to. i'll need to remember to pack books i already own from writers i know i'm going to see so i can get them signed. i've already got my kim addonizio books in my suitcase. oh, and i checked the weather for chicago for this week and it's supposed to be in the high 50's, nicer than it'll be here even. w00t.
my only problem with these things, and it's a problem every year, is that they schedule so many good sessions at the same time. i want to go to a lot of poetry sessions, obviously--there's sessions on poetry and history, poetry and research, women poets, women in poetry, the erotic in poetry, poetry and travel--all of which i want to go to, but then there's also more practical sessions like publishing your poetry, literary magazines, finding non-teaching career opportunities. so how do i choose between a Li-Young Lee reading and a session on Travel and the Poet? or--and this is the tough one--a session on putting together your book manuscript versus "Writing from the Wet Spot: Where Flesh and Words Collide." the problem is the sessions on saturday, of course; it's like they scheduled all the boring ones for thursday and all the really good ones for saturday. and saturday, coincidentally, is the time when the bookfair sale gets really good because all the vendors want to unload their stuff instead of lugging it home again, so they mark everything down and hand tons of stuff out for free. you want a bunch of free time early on saturday afternoon to walk around get good deals before the vendors pack up. but on saturday, i've got marked off two good sessions at 9:00, one at 10:30, two at 1:00, and two at 2:30. and the the bookfair'll be absolutely mobbed at lunchtime. i'm hoping that Li-Young Lee will be the first reader at 1:00 on saturday, so i can sneak out to the other session after he's done. which means, though, that i won't get my books signed. then again, i haven't liked much of Lee's recent work *at all*, so maybe i'll skip his reading... but i liked his earlier work so much i want to give him another chance... anyway, having to choose is a delicious pain because there's so much i'm excited about doing. oh, and poetry magazine is having a special deal for AWP conference attendees--$17.50 for a year's subscription. there might even be a free t-shirt. i'm not worried about the bookfair--i'll probably spend quite a lot of time walking around there earlier in the week so i can plot my attack for saturday afternoon and know where i'll need to hit.
oh man. i am *so glad* i decided to go to this. and i'm glad jorn found a conference that's as fun for him as this is for me.
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Date: 2004-03-23 08:58 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-03-23 09:21 am (UTC)From:top model...
Date: 2004-03-23 11:19 am (UTC)From:Re: top model...
Date: 2004-03-23 01:43 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-03-23 04:42 pm (UTC)From:Also, I believe I remember reading that you had read/were reading a Kim Addonizio collection. Have you read much of her stuff? I was recommended to read her by my instructor-thingy at a writing workshop, but I don't know where to begin. :)
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Date: 2004-03-24 07:20 am (UTC)From:Kim Addonizio--I've got two of her poetry books, Tell Me and Jimmy and Rita. Personally I like Jimmy and Rita better, because every poem expands and deepens and tells the story of this intense and doomed relationship. But Tell Me is the one I read first, and it has some great poems, including "What Women Want," which is just great fun. If you're interested in her fiction, I heard her read from her short story collection, In The Box Called Pleasure, and it's on my list of things to get. She's just a really neat person, very sexy, with a really beautiful, straightforward, lyric style. i think you'll like her.
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Date: 2004-03-26 07:37 am (UTC)From:I have read "What Women Want," I got it in Laure-Anne's personal collection of poetry that she actually copied for us (we had to pay her for it, but it's HUGE and so worth the money). Now, I just need to get off my duff and order some books from Amazon. EXCEPT that I have to read more of the books I already own (personal pact kind of thing -- read more of the books I own but haven't read before buying new books). *schemes*
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Date: 2004-03-29 07:08 am (UTC)From:that's a constant struggle in my house too. :)