Sheila's LiveJournal

I'm off to UC Riverside today for the Eaton Conference. I was at the very first one in 1979, courtesy of a dean who gave conference info and travel money to a part-time teacher. This was the same dean who let me teach creative writing and the literature of science fiction, both when I was still part-time. He believed in the right person for the job, not seniority or tenure or full time status. (He later hired me full-time.) Not many deans like him, alas.

This year, they asked me to judge the fiction writing contest for UC undergraduates, and they';re actually going to pick up my hotel room! That's a first, even though I have presented papers to the conference before and was keynote speaker one time. I also get to autograph and sell a few books on Saturday, I hope!

I'm looking forward to seeing old friends in Riverside, including Samantha Henderson -- who I haven't seen since we shared a room last weekend at the Nebs! {g}