Because woohoo it’s starting an hour earlier because a speaker has been added and that speaker is Rebecca Goldstein!
[dances happy dance]
[ignores resemblance to parodic clumsy dancer while dancing happy dance]
Anybody read The Mind-body Problem? Great novel. I will now re-read it for approximately the tenth time.
[resumes happy dance as the music fades]
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melody
March 8, 2013 at 2:42 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Like I was going to give you a choice not to come? I would have dragged you from Seattle.
Ophelia Benson
March 8, 2013 at 2:49 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Hahaha well the title was a joke. I’m giddy about the news so I make silly jokes.
Ophelia Benson
March 8, 2013 at 2:49 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Tell her to bring Steve!
melody
March 8, 2013 at 4:15 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I don’t think anyone tells Rebecca what to do.
Ophelia Benson
March 8, 2013 at 4:20 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Well you know, the hospitable version of “tell” – “tell her to come right over for dinner.”
rnilsson
March 9, 2013 at 8:57 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
You can never be clumsy or awkward, Ophelia: you have even danced with elephants, as I recall. That must imply a great deal of grace
In several senses of the word.
Ophelia Benson
March 9, 2013 at 9:42 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Awww, danced with elephants; that would be so sweet. I don’t think I’ve quite done that. I’ve run with them though, and run around them (that is, run around one elephant in a silly little game we had), and played hide and seek with them. Close enough.
niftyatheist, perpetually threadrupt
March 12, 2013 at 11:37 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Hi Ophelia, NiftyAtheist here – frequent lurker, infrequent poster. I am planning to go to Women in Secularism 2 (and my sister is going to come down from eastern Canada to attend too!). We are trying to figure out if she should take another vacation day and leave on Thursday or if she can fly in on Friday – we cannot find a schedule anywhere (I guess it has not been finalized yet). Do you have any idea when the Conference events will begin on May 17? THanks!
Ophelia Benson
March 12, 2013 at 11:50 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Hi Nifty – I think the schedule is posted somewhere. Maybe Lanyrd? Anyway the first talk is at 1:30 on Friday – and you don’t want to miss it: it’s Rebecca Goldstein. I think there will be opening remarks before that. Your sister probably needs to take the other vacation day!
niftyatheist, perpetually threadrupt
March 12, 2013 at 12:06 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Thanks for the prompt reply! I’ll pass it on.
I’m really looking forward to the conference! It will be great to hear so many great women speakers/bloggers/activists and to discuss ideas.