that is what I thought

[kareina]

There is a huge international geochemistry conference that I have heard of, but never attended. I got an email today telling me that this year it will be in Florence, Italy, in August. The location/month alone had me thinking "nope", but I clicked on the link anyway. In the list of workshops they are having was one metamorphic which sounded really interesting. But Italy in August? Sounds hot to me.

So I posted to the Metamorphic Army Facebook page:

"I just saw the announcement for the pre-Goldschmidt workshop "Applying Phase Equilibria Modelling to Rocks". It sounds like a very interesting session to attend, but, having only just barely survived the heat in Milan in July and August when I was a post-doc there, the thought of going even further south in Italy during the month of August is terrifying."

to which someone replied:

"Florence is not nearly as bad as Milan in summer – in fact Milan is probably the worst place in the country with the stagnant boiling heat of the Po plain. The Tuscany region is much nicer."

to which I replied:

"Can you define "not nearly as bad" as used in that sentence? I grew up in Alaska, and now live in Luleå Sweden, and I am better acclimated to northern winters than summer heat."

to which he replied:

"Do not go to Florence in August!"

Great, now that that point is cleared up, I can resume planning what I will be doing this summer...

Comments

[darttn.livejournal.com]

You don't have to go. Just ask them to record the session you are interested in and purchase the tape or whatever they record it on. That will be cheaper anyway.
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