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Wednesday “whoops” redux 17 September 2008 11:55 pm

Posted by Tracy in : Warren Belasco, fangirl, geekery, mishaps, random, school, silly , trackback

So regular readers of this blog will know that I have been sooooooo excited about school for awhile now, like at least since getting in. My eagerness was such that I programmed my class schedule into Google Calendar when I first registered in May. Only it turns out the gods of the Internet adjusted for time zones when we moved…. which is why, at 7:35 tonight, when I started recognizing some other food studies first-years in a flood of people emerging from the direction of the classroom where I thought I should be going, I finally figured out that my class was at 4:55. Gah! (I didn’t figure out about the time change earlier because I had to rearrange the rest of my schedule on short notice, but I made those changes after leaving the Pacific time zone.)

The good news (and the reason I don’t want do-overs for the whole friggin’ day) is that I did something fun and geeky before going down to NYU campus to eat dinner (mmm, pizza) and finish my class reading (urgh, academic sociology). Earlier today, the Manhattan College honors program symposium featured the lecture “In Her Mouth Was an Olive Leaf Pluckt Off: The Importance of Food in Times of Displacement and Dislocation” by Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson of the American Studies program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Peter emailed me to say that it was open to the entire Manhattan College community, faculty partners included. Of course, I went. How could I resist? It was even relevant to the readings I’d been doing for the class I thought was at 7:55! Also, I found out from Dr. Williams-Forsom that her colleague Warren Belasco is at NYU this year — I don’t know how this news escaped me but it is all the excuse I need to buy all his books and get them autographed like the scholar groupie I am. Finally, I caught up with the instructor for the class I missed, and apologized, and he said I wasn’t entirely screwed — although the class only meets ten times and participation counts, one absence is allowed. Phew!

And now, while I’m all full of nervous (and embarrassed) energy, I’m going to write a little about the highlights of Dr. Williams-Forson’s talk. If I turn out anything worth reading, I’ll post it.