Presenting a paper in Toronto

My proposal was accepted so I will be presenting a paper at the Canadian Anthropology Society's conference at the University of Toronto in May. I'm going to be in Hogtown (a.k.a. Toronto) from May 7-13, with my presentation scheduled for the first session on the first day of the conference, 9 AM on May 9 . You can see the full schedule here, while the conference website is here.

On the one hand it's annoying to have to be fully awake at 9 AM, but on the other hand it's good to have it all over with immediately. This will be the first time I've ever presented at a national conference, though I did attend the one last year which was set in Montreal. It was cruel of the organizers to schedule Toronto immediately after Montreal since it will just make it obvious how much Toronto is a pile of crap compared to Montreal.

Let's see, what else is new with me? Oh yes, I'm half-heartedly tooling around with a paper about media globalization in regards to Bioman in the Philippines. I might try to have it published sometime. However, I plan to finish it if and when I end up in the Philippines this September, should I get hired to do the overseas development internship I think I've mentioned before. Did you know you can watch old episodes of Bioman on Youtube? I finally saw the last episode because someone had uploaded it. I never realized how heavy the Tagalog accents were on the English dubbing. Also, I now know the guy in the opening was saying "Chodenshi Bioman" (Super-electric Bioman), whereas it was just Japanese gibberish to me before.