Cynthia Payne suggests we all get together for lunch at LLLI.  The only
lunch I will have there is Sunday's, when I will be the "star attraction" at
one of the Speaker's Tables for the conference lunch.  If any of you are
planning to attend that and hadn't picked out another speaker you
particularly wanted to sit with, please come sit with me!  I'm still not
comfortable with this role of "celebrity" AT ALL, and envision myself all
alone at my table :(

One of my friends had a friend in New York who was an anthropology teacher
at a community college and who had come across my book on my research in
West Africa, and used it in one of her classes.  She was asking her friend
if she knew me, and when my friend said "Oh sure, I know Kathy" the woman
from New York was SO IMPRESSED, and my friend laughed and said "She's just a
regular person, you know.  She puts her pants on one leg at a time!"

BTW, I will have a small supply of home-made "James McKenna Fan Club"
buttons with me in Chicago.  He is one of my favorite people/researchers,
and I convinced him to send me a picture without telling him what I wanted
it for (now that's trust!).  He will be at the conference, speaking on
Sunday morning, and again opposite one of my talks (Sunday afternoon or
evening).  If anyone wants a James McKenna Fan Club button, look for me at
his Sunday morning talk.  I am about 5'8" tall, medium-large, with
shoulder-length brown hair and glasses, and otherwise nondescript.  I will
be without family for that session, but I'll be the one with the James
McKenna Fan Club button on :)

Kathy D.
Katherine A. Dettwyler, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University
President, James McKenna Fan Club