Kalamazoo, day the last

Will blog about the middle later, but here are the highlights:

• Hanging out with colleagues from my state, who are now discussing a regular video-seminar
  
• Hearing about the 'horses in mud' paper
  
• Celebrating with my colleague from SLAC and my friends from other places
  
• Wonderful time talking to people at the dance last night
  
• Finding out that someone I thought hated me probably doesn't
  
• Learning how to teach about early Christianity from Walter Goffart
  
• Finding out that Goths don't always have moustaches and Romans often do
  
• Bees! Hymns to bees! Bees are monks, because they are virgins
  
• Did you know that Venetians were using surnames comparatively early?
  
• We need to rethink masculinity and take masculine studies away from the feminist paradigm; and think about the somatic rather than the discourse
  

eta: Also, loved the announcement that a rather well-known early medievalist was not chairing his session because he was in a boxing bout.