The XII Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages is going to be happen in my home city of Fortaleza, on August 27th-29th. The programme looks very promising, with sessions about Software Transaction Memory in Haskell, concurrency with Lua (with the main architect of Lua, Roberto Ierusalimschy from PUC-Rio) and an invited talk of Shriram Krishnamurthi, the author of Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, among other interesting stuff. I hope to be there, I even get to see my family and my friends. 