The last few days have been a wonderful academic pop culture extravaganza!!!!  I attended the PCA/ACA conference Wednesday evening to Saturday afternoon, and even managed to work in a bit of beautiful site seeing.  I don’t remember the last time I squeezed in so much into just a few days.
I took over twenty pages of hand written notes from all the panels I attended.  My idea was originally to make a blog post about each panel… we’ll see if time allows in the coming weeks.  I’m sitting at the airport right now. When I get back home, it will quickly be Easter, and after that I must turn back to my giant stack of papers that need grading, not to mention the giant stack of school books that need reading…. so, we’ll see how it goes.  But, I did want to do a quick post saying how wonderful the conference was!!
There were many panels on the work of Joss Whedon, which was of course the highlight for me. I also went to panels on Supernatural and LOST, as well as panels on integrating pop culture into the composition classroom.  I have so many wonderful ideas dancing around my mind right now!  I am so inspired by all my wonderful colleagues.  And, I’m inspired to go straight to my TV to rewatch all of LOST and Dollhouse!!  Oh, and most wonderfully, I’ve inspired a few folks in my life to want to watch Buffy!!  Success!