Kathryn Michel's Page

Hi Kathryn - so wonderful to hear from you, but sorry to hear about your health! That's understandable about the driving, and I'm sure one of us could take you to and from hotels if you would like (or we could get a student to do so). We would certainly do whatever we could if it means you'd be there! We are very excited about the lineup this year - and I'm actually giving a talk myself in March. One of my best friends is coming to speak about Delphi in December so I'm particularly excited about that one as well. As for email, most of us have our ASU emails with our name: jayne.reinhard@asu.edu, almira.poudrier@asu.edu, and thomas.morton@asu.edu. Please don't hesitate to drop us a line if you want or need to! Adele has stepped down as secretary, and Rachel (not sure if you know her, she is in the Anthro Dept.) will be off doing AIA lectures across the country herself, so we have added Mike Zajac to our staff. You have probably met him - he's at most if not all of the lectures anyway. Used to be one of Tom's graduate students who did a lot of work with Nancy Serwint at Cyprus. We look forward to making your visit in October possible - enjoy Minnesota and get yourself better if you can!
All the best,
Jayni

Oh, also, the where is not determined yet, but it will be close to campus. I'll let you know as soon as I do.

Hi Kathryn, We're doing dinner after the lectures this semester, since the lectures are at 6pm now. I hope the kitty is okay!

ha ha - I have no idea, it appeared out of nowhere and I asked my husband the same thing! it's just something that social networks under the ning aegis tend to do, so they added it without my knowledge. I can't get rid of it, so just ignore it. I think the gifts are free, but I haven't checked yet - it's just a way to send something cute to someone else, but completely unnecessary.

Ben's address is: bnelson@asu.edu and I will send him a quick note to let him know that a question might be coming, either from you or from Allan. Will that help? The acoustics and microphone were pretty unacceptable, weren't they? We'll be working on that in the next week or so.

I've checked it out today and the room is great - there's a Starbucks down below on the first floor that's open til 8 if you find yourself starving, but we have decided on sticking with the Phoenicia for dinner, which would be after the talk. As I said the parking garage is directly across the street, closer than any other street or handicapped parking spaces. There are some metered spaces around, but they max at one hour, and it's $1.50 for that hour in quarters. The elevators (a pair of them) are in the center of the building, and when they open onto the 3rd floor, the lecture hall is right in front of you with multiple entries, either left or right. Not bad at all over there - the only thing is the walk to Phoenicia afterwards, but if you're parked there, it's no problem to drive up to the north end of campus.

Oh, and I have asked Mira and Tom what we're doing for dinner - don't know yet if we're sticking with Phoenicia or not, simply because now that we're toward the south end of campus, we might want to look into going someplace down there to avoid long walks.

It is for members only, but people can sign up to be members without being "okayed" by me. I check as often as I can to insure that the new members are "legit" and then send them welcome notes. Since it was the Labor Day weekend I didn't check and this person slipped in and left messages. I don't think there's a way I can screen before they become members, but I will check that out.

yep, that's the one!