SCALC 2002

[rlarson at unlnotes01.unl.edu]

I just wanted to say it was really nice meeting all you fine people at the
SCALC conference.  I had a wonderful time, and look forward to seeing you
all again next year.  Hopefully, everybody had a safe trip back.

If we ever get up that way again, may I suggest getting lost on foot in the
Badlands as a delightful early morning activity?  Wandering a few gullies
away from the boardwalk, sliding to the bottom of a ravine down a slope too
steep to climb back up again, scrambling to the top of a nearby ridge,
looking around to see no sign of the works of man in any direction, but
only the weird, jagged landscape, and a single black hawk soaring overhead
against a blue sky studded with white clouds tinted salmon in the early
light of dawn-- this certainly qualifies as one of the magic moments of my
life.

Rory