- # of papers attended: 15 1/2
- # of papers delivered: 1
- # of marginal illuminations used during the paper: 41
- # of those which were pooping, peeing, or otherwise engaged in nastiness: 4 (less than 10%!)
- # of images of Super Mario used during the paper: 2
- # of people who came up to me after my paper to say they like my blog: 6
- # of people who came up to me after my paper to say, ‘Hey, you’re from the Internet!’: 1
- # of people who told me that my they will not read my blog with their children in the room: 1
- # of medieval bloggers I met at the medieval blogger meetup: 8
- # of medieval bloggers I should have introduced myself to but was too lazy and/or socially maladjusted to: 17
- # of different ways my name was spelled by people affiliated with K-Zoo in some official capacity: 5
- # of times Scott Nokes mispronounced my name while introducing me to people at the blogger meetup: 3
- # of people who recognized me as the Got Medieval GuyTM (excluding paper and meetup): 9
- threadcount of the sheets provided for conference participants who lodged in the dorms: 7
- # of centimeters I held my laptop out the dorm window in order to snag a wireless signal: 10
- # of times I arranged to grab coffee with a conference participant: 5
- # of those coffee meetings that took place on Friday: 5
- % of my blood, by volume, that had been replaced by caffeine as of Friday at 5:00: 22 1/9
- # of times I found myself telling people how boring John Lydgate is: 8
- # of times I found myself telling people how awesome Doodle Penance is: 4
- # of discussions of Malory’s narrative technique I had with conference participants: 1
- # of times I was chided by tenured faculty for not having read Harry Potter volumes 5-7: 2
- # of arguments I had with conference participants over which Disney Princess would win in a catfight: 3
- # of people who tried to cheap out and go with Mulan: 2
- # of people I spotted wearing drunken monkey shirts from my CafePress store: 1
- # of $ made by my CafePress store during Kalamazoo: $0.00
Kalamazoo by the Numbers
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