frustrated of sacramento

Most of the way through the conference now and just back from the evening banquet which was held outdoors on the steps of Arnie governer of californias Shwatzenigeer’s official residence. A few bottles of Sierra Nevada heavier so please forgive the typos!

psyching up for tomorrow:
- two sessions on ‘managing memory, managing meaning’.
- taxi ride to station
- Train to Richmond
- BART to 16th Street Mission
- taxi to rachel’s
- just over an hour at rachel’s and then a lift to 16th Street misson BART station
- BART to SF airport
- plane to London Heathrow
- plane to Manchester
- train to Leeds
- picked up by James and driven home.
So l leave midday on Sunday and get home something life 7pm on Monday. goodness!

the conference has been moderately interesting. not much in the way of thought provoking theory expanding research, but plenty of friendly interesting people and time to chat. So -ve intulectual and +ve networking compared with the AAG in SF in April. My presentation went well and I got a lot of enthusiastic feedback, which is a nice way to end my sabbatical.

I’ve been staying in the plushest and most expensive hotel so far and they don’t give you wireness network. isn’t that shocking? I’ve finally got onto the internet today on my roommate’s computer but very frustratingly sheffield uni email seems to be down so my one chance is blown.

Sacramento is a bit of a dull town… I almost resorted to going to the pre-eminent railway museum in the states! There was a heavy metal concert in a city centre park yesterday evening, but it finshed at 8 and all the rockers drove off home on their Harleys.