Another Friday Night ---

But this time ---

I'm in Chicago.

And what am I doing? Sitting at the hotel, surfing the Internet for a few more minutes before I go upstairs to my room and write. All of the homework that needed to be done before I went on Spring Break, is done. I do have several papers and projects to do, but I don't want to do them, even if I had brought them with me, which I didn't. Well, aside from the paper that was due at midnight last night. :)

Why am I in Chicago? For a MidWest Regional Conference for the SVA. My university sent me as a delegate, and while my fellow vets are still out and about, I returned to the hotel a couple hours after dinner. It was loud, and I need to keep what remains of my hearing.

There are differences in conferences, I guess I knew that, but I didn't really think about it until after we were here. I packed for a business conference, a writer's conference, which is mostly business all of the time. Not so much here. Not that it's a bad thing, it's not, it's the best way to network for us, and to discuss the highs and lows of what was heard throughout the day. It's different. At a writer's conference, aside from still milling around whereever we were at, if I wanted to bring my laptop down to the lobby, I was guarenteed to find at least one writer, usually three or four hanging out, writing, brainstorming, or just talking about anything and everything. Now it's quiet. My Joy is safe with Grandma, and I feel a little lost and a bit lonely. It's just a different feeling. Again, not one I thought I'd be feeling, but life is nothing if not an adventure. This to will pass, and all will be well. Needless to say I didn't pack exactly right, but not bad.

As far as the writing goes -

I'm .... inspired. :)


A lot.

NEW LOOK!!!!!!!!!

Spring is almost here - hey it's trying - and with it a new look. Less plain, and very cool. Many, humongous amounts of thanks to Brynn Paulin for the cool new design.

I'm feeling re-energized and can't wait until spring break where I think I'm going to try writing 20 pages a day, since I will have very little homework - yeah - gotta love this semester. I listened to a woman speak the other day at one of the meetings I went to and she was a single mom from a blue collar family like me when she started med school, and it made me realize, I could probably go to med school and become a doctor. There is a group of people I would like to work with specifically, but we'll see.

Enjoy the site, I have a paper to write. Sigh. Again. Still. But this one is interesting, perhaps controversial, but interesting none-the-less - the effects of the Contemporary American diet on different races.