The public has spoken!`

Okay. So i got a comment on a recent post COMPLAINING that I haven't posted in a long time. On the one hand, I am glad that there are people reading my blog (the lone outpost is now being visited by civilization more regularly now). On the other hand, dude! I am busy!

Okay, enough of me whining. I have actually been busy lately. I went to a conference out in San Franscisco last week. It was really good for me to go (though starting out at 4 AM and travelling across two time zones is a great reminder that I am not as young as I used to be). I am now super charged about doing my dissertation. Finding other people who are interested in the same things as oneself is incredibly exciting. I'm not the only crazy one in the world! I can now see that one of the purposes for major conferences and conventions (Republican/Democratic/Socialist/Star Trek conventions, pagan gatherings, and Billy Graham events to name a few) like this is to help obsessed freaks like me connect with other like-minded freaks.