sauvage noble

Thursday, 3 January 2008. Check in. I was pleasantly surprised to be greeted by Prof. Helma Dik, a Classical linguist at UChicago. Of course, I was but a database entry to her, but I wasn’t expecting faculty to be helping with such tasks as conference registration.

Besides hitting the Placement Service and book exhibit—where I scored hardcover copies of Colvin’s Historical Greek Reader and Clackson’s Indo-European Linguistics at absolute steals—and reconnecting with friends and colleagues, I took it easy. Intentions to get as much as possibe out of the APA, as well as LSA 82 just several blocks down the street, remained serious.

Worlds colliding, I was happy to finally meet WM Blathers in person, and we were able to chat a bit while shopping for books. (Cf. his almost live blogging of the day.)

Labels: autobiographical, books, conferences