ul thoughts born of semi-leisure:</p>

<p>- You might think academics would have more interesting cell-phone tones than the average schmoe, or at least be a little better about remembering to turn them off during conference sessions.  You would be wrong.  </p>

<p>- If you were in the pop-culture session, I was the one who unobtrusively slipped out three minutes into the <i>Harry Potter</i> paper when it became obvious that the poster actually believed witch-burnings <i>did</i> take place in the fourteenth 