A Very Academic Problem
For quite a few academics, the year is divided into seasons. You have conference season, which is for travel and networking (and the odd drinking binge). You have teaching season, which is murder. You have writing season (AKA the holidays). Right now we’re in a liminal season - conference-season-planning season. This is when the abstracts and the papers have to be written, the conferences decided upon, and so on. In the last weeks my inbox has been awash in various invitations, reminders, deadline extensions and so on. I still haven’t decided. I’ll do SCOS (as it’s my homie, Dr. O’Doherty that’s running that particular freakshow). I may do AoM (don’t worry if you don’t get the abbreviations, it’s not very important). I may do EGOS. I may not. But what should one do with the pre-workshops, the in-between-workshops, the fun little thing in May? Not a very serious problem, I admit, but it is one. At least for us academics.
