I actually could have come THIS CLOSE to going to Kidlitcon! We're going to NYC the weekend BEFORE for my cousin's wedding! We'll be there a couple extra days and I'll be with lots of people who'd happily take the kids while I sneak off to a conference... but it's one weekend off!

I know I was SUPPOSED to have read Annie Dillard in library school (it wasn't Pilgrim, it was --An American Childhood? Anyway it was a memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh because it was a Pittsburgh history and culture class), but I can't actually remember it now, so I don't remember if I actually read it, browsed it, or skipped it entirely (there was a very long reading list for that class).