Last weekend was my trip out to Arizona State University to take part in the Western States Rhetoric and Literacy conference. ‘Twas quite the experience – one part academic tedium, two parts sentimentality, three parts surreal post-conference activity. Sadly the latter, while ingredients of saucy happenings were present, they were added in a strange mixture making it completely unpalatable. 
I should logically start at the beginning, but I’ve been stuck at how to actually find that beginning to be able to tie in everything else; there are several tracks to choose from. I decided to break up into sections that struck me as interesting, topped them with a quote, and salted with some pictures.
[I'm not sure why these paragraphs have this strange food undercurrent; I think I'm hungry.]
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