The morning after Yom Kippur
May. 23rd, 2019 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_whomThe major conference in my field starts on Thursday, October 10th this year, and is being held in Eugene, Oregon—a somewhat out-of-the-way city that there aren't a lot of flights to. Yom Kippur is Wednesday, October 9th. I already knew that that was going to be kind of annoying.
What I didn't learn until just now, though, was that the conference is scheduled to start Thursday morning, rather than (as it does in most years) Thursday afternoon. This basically makes the first sessions of the conference almost completely inaccessible to people who observe Yom Kippur (unless, I guess, they want to travel to Eugene on Tuesday and observe the fast there).
For example, looking for flights from San Diego, I've been able to find 1 itinerary that leaves late enough Wednesday night that I might in principle have a chance of getting to the airport in time for it after the holiday ends, arriving in Eugene at midnight. Failing that, there's no way to get to Eugene earlier than 11am, missing the morning sessions almost entirely. Presumably people coming from farther away will have it even worse.
I'm debating whether or not to send the conference organizers an angry email about this.
What I didn't learn until just now, though, was that the conference is scheduled to start Thursday morning, rather than (as it does in most years) Thursday afternoon. This basically makes the first sessions of the conference almost completely inaccessible to people who observe Yom Kippur (unless, I guess, they want to travel to Eugene on Tuesday and observe the fast there).
For example, looking for flights from San Diego, I've been able to find 1 itinerary that leaves late enough Wednesday night that I might in principle have a chance of getting to the airport in time for it after the holiday ends, arriving in Eugene at midnight. Failing that, there's no way to get to Eugene earlier than 11am, missing the morning sessions almost entirely. Presumably people coming from farther away will have it even worse.
I'm debating whether or not to send the conference organizers an angry email about this.
