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October 18, 2004
Weekend Life
I just got back last night from this year's meeting of the Society for Literature and Science, where I gave a paper on technology and anime fandom. (I wasn't so sure about the paper at first, but I think it turned out better than I thought. This is certainly a topic I'm going to have to revisit.) I was disappointed by the fact that we didn't have more of an audience -- there were only seven people or so out there in the chairs. Of course, our topic had been pushed to the periphery of the conference, as we had to present at 8:30am on the very last day, when most everyone else was packing up to leave.
On the plus side of things, I did get to meet up with a lot of people whom I hadn't seen in a while, like Marc, Frenchy, and Brent. I also got to meet Tim Perper and Martha Cornog (who were on the panel with me and who wrote a long paper on manga in the journal Sexuality & Culture) as well as author/filmmaker Ruth Ozeki (who was one of our few audience members; I've been meaning to check out her books like My Year of Meats but have not yet gotten around to it).
On my way back to Indiana yesterday, I found one of the greatest things ever: a used bookstore at an airport! Frenchy and I spent a good chunk of time looking around the store, called 2nd Ed. Book Sellers, in the Raleigh/Durham Airport. I picked up an interesting tome called The Book on the Bookshelf. I've been thinking a lot about the organization of books recently because 1) I really need to do some organizing of my own, as all my books are barely contained by the many inexpensive MDF bookcases we've purchased from Target in the last few years and 2) the library at IU is really quite disorganized and it's ofter very difficult to find things in there (it looks like they're running out of room, as there are almost always books that have been shelved sideways on top of other books because they won't fit anywhere else).
But now I'm back after my brief adventure.
Posted by brianruh at October 18, 2004 10:43 AM