The 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association is taking place in San Francisco this year.

My mother used to live in SF, yet I have never been there.

The theme for the meeting is "Public Sociologies."

Guess who just joined the ASA?

Guess who's going, even though she's got nothing to present or even, you know, talk about?

Guess who has finally lost her last shred of sanity?

Yup, that'd be me.