I took a break to get CANEd.

Boston is a lovely town. All the more when the Classical Association of New England is holding its annual conference at UMass Boston. Among my personal highlights from the conference I attended last weekend:

*a talk on the use of graphic novels (in particular, Gaiman's Sandman series) in undergraduate classics curricula.
*meeting up for an evening with a good friend of mine from grad school who now lives in Boston.
*the use of the term "asshood" - seriously and without any verbal scare quotes whatsoever - in a scholarly presentation. (context keyword: Apuleius.)
*the opportunity to purchase a set of Scrabble tiles designed and scored specifically for playing the game in Latin. (Though I admit that I did, in fact, pass up this opportunity.)
*simply connecting with colleagues. Teaching Latin can be an isolating experience, especially in a small school with no one who shares one's area of expertise.
*generally geeking out, speaking Latin and making awful mythological puns (and laughing at them without irony).