Because I am a REAL Academic

Or at least so I can now tell myself. For they at Bath Spa University College would be 'delighted' (yes, delighted) to have me give a paper at their conference this November. Which means a) I can justify buying a suit, b) I get to go to Bath, one of my favourite places, and eat tasty buns at Sally Lunn's (after I give my paper, clearly, as otherwise the hypo-style sugar-shock will knock me on my ass when I am pretending to be a grown up), and c) I feel like an actual proper person, not just some lazy debutante who didn't really like her interior decorating job and so went to grad school instead. Yay, me. Yay, ME!