professorsideas:
This is another of those events that had I not written it all down right afterward, I would have forgotten many of the details. If you’ve ever thought about going to an “adult” event and you live within 500 miles of Atalanta, you should read this and consider going next year.
Frolicon
2014
I
can summarize our trip on Easter weekend to Frolicon 2014 as one of those
amazing short trips that was filled with good things.
However,
as our trip to Atlanta approached things looked grim indeed. First I’d failed to make our reservations at
the host hotel early enough, so when
we found out they were fully booked two
months in advance we decided to put off making any reservations till the last
minute. I made the bet that rates would fall right before the Easter weekend.
After all, who goes to stay at the Atlanta airport for Easter? And we were
right, so we got a great rate, only to find out that due to “an accounting
error” we had no money in my bank account. The reality is that as a full-time
adjunct professor, teaching graduate classes at a major university, I was
making less than an assistant manager at McDonalds. Though I loved teaching,
the reality was my pay was not something we could live on, and I was beginning
to face that reality.
Not going to Frolicon was not an option since
we were presenting two seminars on open marriage. We had just enough in Paula’s
bank account to pay for two nights in the cheapest hotel within walking
distance to the Sheraton Gateway Convention Center: $54 per night.
So
we left late on Friday with just enough gas to get there and back (we don’t
have any credit cards), and $6 in coins as our food budget. But we were on our way.
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