Alright you miserable wretches,
I'm headed to Boston for the AHA. I am not giving a paper. I am not on a search committee. I'm not a job seeker. You will not find me on the program. But I do have some obligatory business to transact there, so that's where I'll be. I don't know yet whether I'll resurrect my RYS AHA reportage, but if the muse strikes, I may do that too.
In the meantime, I have a CM gimmick in mind. On Saturday the 7th at around 1:00 PM or so, I will slide myself onto a stool in one of the hotel bars to watch some football and enjoy an adult beverage or two. If you think you can figure out who I am, here is the challenge and response:
Challenge: What color is the sky on your planet?
Response: Bourbon Red
First person to figure it out can drink on my tab.
Archie
Got some "business to transact" there? Drugs? Or shower curtain rings?
ReplyDeleteSorry I won't be there for the Great AHA Bar Challenge of 2011. Sure as hell would like to meet the famous AA.
COOOOOOOL. Bonus points in heaven for providing photos event...
ReplyDeleteDamn, wish now I'd been able to scrape together the money to go to the AHA this year....Have fun.
ReplyDeleteWon't be seeing you, I am flying in the other direction, to sunny California for the MLA. Anyone else?
ReplyDeleteAAS (American Astronomical Society) meeting in Seattle anyone?
ReplyDeleteLe Professeur, I am headed to LA today by car. Everyone think of me as I roll through Flagstaff, Kingman, Barstow, etc!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to AHA, one of the biggest draws is that I'm originally from the Boston area and will be seeing friends and family. I imagine I would fail your challenge on account of being chicken shit, but I'm noting the information just in case I am not gallivanting around Beantown with the fam and have some liquid courage in me.
ReplyDeleteNot to the Geographers' conference until later in the term, dang it! (For those of you playing at home, I am not, technically, a geographer)
ReplyDeleteAHHHH!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to be that person to claim a free drink with you. Hey -- next year's AHA is in Chicago. Just sayin. Just sayin.
I'm there, but I can't make that time, unless you mean Friday the 7th. Saturday is the 8th.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is anyone reading this could pretend to be you.
@AdjunctSlave: My theory is that Angry Archie is an adjunct at Bunker Hill CC who makes a living at his day job as a bartender at that hotel bar. After work, he's going to meet up with his friends and say, "Hey, guess what happened at the bar today. Hundreds of crazy people were roaming around asking each other, 'What color is the sky on your planet?' Kind of makes you wonder about people. They said they were professors...."
ReplyDelete@AdjunctSlave: Saturday. My grasp of dates is always tenuous. That's why I'm in this field. And the impersonation problem had occurred to me. That's why I promised free drinks. Historians are way too cheap to buy anyone else drinks, so that should take care of that.
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