Mad March Travel

~ Cheryl

Deep breath, here we go.

On Friday (5th) I head off to Dublin for P-Con, returning on Monday (8th).

The following Wednesday (10th) I’m off to London where I’m staying with the Clutes overnight in preparation for an early morning flight to San Francisco on the Thursday (11th).

Kevin’s stuck in Portland on a training course, so I’ll need to find my own way to our sadly neglected apartment. Fortunately BART will take me most of the way, and there are cabs available at Fremont BART. Then I’ll need to get a bus to the shops as there’ll be no fresh food at home.

I was hoping to get to Nova Albion over the weekend, but Kevin has the van. Also there’s an SFSFC Board Meeting on Saturday (13th).

Kevin should be back on Sunday night (14th), so we ought to be able to make BASFA on the Monday (15th), but early Tuesday morning (16th) I’m off to Orlando for ICFA where I will finally get to present my paper on trans characters in science fiction and fantasy.

I’ll be back in the Bay Area on the following Monday (22nd). Sleep may follow.

8 thoughts on “Mad March Travel”

  1. I hope you are flying one airline or one network of airlines to get the most miles out of this trip. You are going to be a busy lady for the next few weeks.

    1. I wouldn’t be able to do things like this if I wasn’t a whiz at things like snapping up cheap fares and accumulating points.

  2. I’m jealous! I’m not even going to my first con of the year until the last weekend of March.

  3. Drat, looks like we’ll overlap by only a few hours–I’ll be in San Jose from March 8 (late night) – 12 (out in the morning).

    At least we’ll catch up at ICFA!

    1. Yep. I arrive at SFO early afternoon on the 11th, but I have no transport and will need to shop for food. Orlando it is, I think.

  4. Your ICFA paper will be made available in some online format afterwards, I do hope.

    1. Probably, but I’m hoping that the paper will get the attention of the academic community. Much of what gets written about trans people in literary academia is done by feminist academics whose experience of trans people is either limited or informed solely by theory. So I don’t was the do anything that might prevent publication elsewhere. But if I can put it online I will.

      I do have an incentive. You have under 20 minutes to deliver a paper at ICFA, which in my case has resulted in an enormous amount of footnoting and glossing over points. I’d like to be able to put some of that text back.

  5. I am sorry not to get to ICFA this year to hear your paper. Also, it must be confessed,because I have yet to go and have wanted to for a long time.

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