I'm flying into Portland on Thursday. My plan had been to take the train to the end of the line and then call the school for a shuttle to come and pick me up. This afternoon I got an email from Amber, the administrator, telling me that two faculty writers would be arriving in Portland at the same time as I am and asking if I would like to catch a ride in the shuttle that will be picking them up from the airport.
I said yes, of course!
It turns out that the writers are Ellen Bass and Pattiann Rogers, two poets. It's a big bonus for me, I think. I'll get to meet people ahead of time and I will also get to have the real life experience of looking for someone standing in an airport holding a sign.
Tomorrow I'll be doing last minute, pre-trip stuff and, doubtless, getting really nervous. I can tell I'm going to have to go through a brief phase--due to shock, introversion, or having inadvertently used superglue instead of toothpaste-- of not being able to string a sentence together. But hopefully you won't have to see that part. It won't be pretty.
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