Thread by @JasonChow

#AcademicTwitter: Anyone ever haul themselves to definitely the wrong place for a conference? Abstract: I’m on the wrong side of Canada #MCLS2019 1/18

After all the anticipation and flight delays, I will be missing #MCLS2019 because I am in Calgary and not in Ottawa. Some of you in the #language and #arithmetic session might have noticed 2/18

Booked flights and hotels in a rush, both are Canadian cities I’ve never been to that sit nicely on the south side of a river and have similar looking night-time pictures of their respective Westins 3/18

In hindsight, I got Calgary and Carleton (the university where the conference is) mixed up in my head 4/18

Only noticed something was off when someone on my panel (@davidjpurpura [note his immediate reaction was: you must tweet this]) emailed asking me if I was coming to our talk (he included a smiley face so I thought he was joking🙂) 5/18

Soon to find out that I was on a different time zone (big kicker!), and thought maybe there was some weird CST/EST thing going on across the border🇨🇦 6/18

Ran to get an Uber (which I had just downloaded because I am a Lyft user in the US) which then showed me this weird line across the continent. I thought for sure it was a weird wifi thing or the Verizon TravelPass roaming missing with me (also first time user) 7/18

Got it in the Uber and then, needless to say #awkwardmoment, I got out shortly after without leaving the hotel (Westin Calgary not Westin Ottawa FYI) 8/18

It has been really busy with grant projects wrapping up in schools (last week of school was last week), managing a bunch of things, writing grants, etc. However, context clues matter! 9/18

CC#1: The flight time from Chicago to Calgary is 20-30 mins longer than to Ottawa. I brushed it off for weather-related changes, as a bunch of us (e.g., @sarahpowellphd [you won the race in the end]) were being delayed or rerouted over a few days 10/18

CC#2: The forecast for Carleton U was and had been overcast and I landed to amazing weather, and the taxi driver (because I didn’t have Uber yet) said how it’s been really amazing all week 11/18

CC#3: I looked up and made sure I could use Lyft at this conference (yes, Ottawa has Lyft), but landed to YYC with my Lyft app telling me they don’t run in that location yet🤔 12/18

CC#4: When asking people before my trip what there is to do in Calgary, no one had been. I have several friends who went to Carleton U and I also know a lot of people love (and have been to) Ottawa 13/18

I have learned my lesson here today for sure. To anyone who hasn’t yet made this mistake, I suggest an extra minute of confirmatory effort to make sure this doesn’t happen to you. I *for sure* assumed I would never do this 14/18

Silver lining is now I have some time and will go on a run (the river on this side of Canada looks great), and I’ll be able to make all my Zoom calls I had set as tentative. If anyone wants to catch up, I have some time😂 15/18

To my @mathcogsociety colleagues and friends, I missed the 1st meeting in Oxford and given these events, am missing it again. Surely hoping to make it next year – there’s so much work going on I want/need to know more about. Third time’s a charm, or so I hear #MCLS2019 16/18

First time screwing up a conference trip. Also first time doing a mutli tweet tweet. Hopefully I only find myself doing one of the two again HAH 17/18

Anyone else have stories to share to humor a semi-humored and definitely embarrassed junior faculty member sitting in a hotel lobby because housekeeping is cleaning the room he doesn’t need anymore?#AcademicTwitter ✌️18/18

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