Blogging the West

Tonight I fly out to Utah. I'll spend tomorrow following Tony around and then Saturday I'll present my paper at the AML Conference. (3:30 - 3:55, room 3215 in the Wilkinson Center. 25 minutes of dry, academic goodness. Be there or be square, hipsters!)On Sunday Tony will drive me up to Idaho and we'll spend a little time in Rexburg checking out old haunts. Then from Monday until early Friday morning, I'll just be hanging out, playing with my nieces and nephews, chilling with my brothers, tormenting my mother (because that's what tall people do to short people), and just generally soaking up the Idaho-ness of it all.

While I doubt I'll get much done over the weekend, I do intend to blog a little while I'm away. If I were a little more technologically advanced, I'd have a laptop and I'd live-blog my various airport experiences and the drive with Tony. But as it is, I'll just have to do with what I've got.

For now, I need to prepare a week's worth of assignments that will go completely unused. (They always do. It's just a little thing my boss has me do so he can feel like he's a good planner. I like to humor him that way. In reality, he organizes like I play football -- not at all.) I'm also going to attempt to reapply for the same film studies scholarship I won last year. I don't know how they feel about giving it to the same person two years in a row but I'll give it a stab.

And, as if that wasn't enough to do, I need to watch the final hour of Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice and return it before leaving today.

Y'know, if I wasn't a giant procrastinator, my life would be a lot easier.