TITLE: Leaving for SugarLoafPLoP
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: August 06, 2004  8:44 AM
DESC: going out of town for a week
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I am off to Florida for a couple of days on my way to Brazil for
<A HREF="http://sugarloafplop2004.ufc.br/">SugarLoafPLoP 2004</A>.
I give a talk in Recife on Monday and conference talks on Tuesday
and Friday.  In between I'm leading a writers workshop and serving
as a writing mentor to a new author.  I'll be busy!  The conference
hotel offers Internet access, so I'll try to blog about the goings-on.

My talks aren't finished yet, so I will also be busy on the plan today
and then on the flights to Brazil.  Good thing my Tampa-Recife flights
net out at 23 hours...

Running update:  I ran my best 6x1200m speed work-out this morning,
bringing every repeat in at 4 seconds under target except the last,
which I ran 14s faster than my goal time.  So, after four slow runs
recovering from
<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2004-07.html#e2004-07-29T08_05_47.htm">my nine-day lay-off</A>,
I may be back on track!  Let's hope that I can find the time and
places I need to run while traveling.
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