Tomorrow afternoon, I'm going to Bowling Green State so that I can go to the Annual Meeting of the East Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers, or ELDAAG. It's pretty exciting, really, because I'm presenting a paper there for the first time to an audience of Kent State people. It's also a dry run for my presentation at the National Meeting at Chicago in March.

The unfortunate news is this: I'm only going to have a relatively short time to visit my friend because of some departmental things I have to attend. It sucks, but we're only there for a couple days and it is a professional meeting first. Ugh.

So, I leave tomorrow from work for this shin-dig and I'm staying at a Quality Inn with Mary and some other characters. Mary and I are going to dry-run our presentations for each other tomorrow, and we may end up turning it into a party for those presenting. It should be a fun road-trip and generally a good time. I'm going to miss Amy, but then, when wouldn't I?

People (though no one I know) have given me a little shit for my sudden (and late) finding of The Postal Service. Like I commented on that blog: Meh. Deal with it. I'll like what I like whenever I like it. So what if I'm late? I found it now, and I enjoy it.

Tonight, I've gotta get my presentation for the ELDAAG done, even though the house is an absolute wreck. Hopefully, I'll be able to get it done and clean the house, but obviously the presentation comes first. I had been cleaning every Saturday since Amy was at work each of those days all day, but this past weekend we went to Pittsburgh, so I didn't clean. It's becoming obvious that I should have.

With school being pretty difficult lately, I haven't been able to write my normal essays about whatever and have been concentrating on my day-to-day shit. It's annoying to me, because the cool thing about a blog is that I can write anything I want on any topic. My head's been shot the past few days, so that hasn't happened.

I may have a nap.