A big week

I'm just now recovering from a busy few days. First off, I had a presentation for the staff here on an aspect of my research. I spoke about ethnomethodology and conversation analysis and some of the challenges presented by applying them to the examination of young children's use of computers. the day after I did a presentation for a (very) small group. The presentation was initiated by Christine Edwards-Groves who is keen to get up a local chapter of ALEA.

On Saturday I had some good news. I had recently sent off an abstract for this. Although I haven't published in the area of restricted interactional activities per se, I have certainly examined examples of institutional talk in my PhD. So I thought to have a go for the symposium which is proposed for the International Pragmatics conference in Manchester in 2011.

Anyhow, Fabienne Chevalier got back to me with an acceptance and I was really chuffed about it. I put a lot of time into the abstract and so felt "rewarded" for that effort. Really, however, I am very happy at the prospect of presenting with folk I don't know (yet). After that success, I have decided to put up an abstract for the CA conference which comes back to back with the one in Manchester. Now I will have to think of something very good for that!

Plenty to do.