Mmm, conference

(This post might end suddenly- I'm stealing wireless internet on my laptop from the hotel [not my hotel, pshh. The hotel the conference is in. I'm sleeping in a hostel {and actually, so is one of the presenters here. I saw him this morning while half-asleep, and than ran into him again in the registration line, where I dignified myself by blurting out "Hey, you were at the hostel too!". But he was nice and introduced himself to me and we talked, so now I just have a weird story about staying down the hall from someone I originally thought was a crazy tourist, but is actually just a charmingly eccentric professor, of the sort that I think every university is required to have at least one of}, because I am so freaking broke, though luckily enough it is actually open tonight and not closed for a fundraiser like they told me on the phone, so I don't have to make desperate plans to very quickly make a friend and borrow their room] and I'm not sure how much battery I have left.)

( Cut because it got long )