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Hello it's a bit sad I know but I have to confess that there was a time when I was actually excited at the prospect of attending an academic sociology conference.

I mean, you never know I might run into a sociological staff, find myself next to Anthony Giddens or Ziggman Bowman in the student

bowel or someone might offer me a better job, readership, a chair, or I might encounter a young

postgraduate have been fascinated by my recent article on network theory.

Ah, I can't really say I was entertaining any of these ancient fantasies when last

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