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Rebecca Lobo wonders what Professor Alvin does on his trips to conferences. She read 2066, recently. Well, she started 2066, but didn't have time to finish it. She thinks about professors fucking when they're away for conferences, and also talking a bit about whatever. She thinks about professors giving long-winded speeches and other professors being bored, looking at their leather-banded watches, thinking “how many more speeches before mine?”

She wants to know where Professor Alvin is sleeping during the conference, what intricate print covers the sheets on his hotel bed, and what they smell like. She doesn't need the smell, exactly. Just wants to hear from him what everything is comparable to, in her little town in Connecticut.