Memory-bits:
- Felt completely out of my depth at at least one point in every session I attended
- Also felt completely welcomed at a couple of sessions where I actually was totally out of my depth
- Librarians are wacky people, but really easy to identify...at hotels, restaurants, and airports...it was a sort of sport after the first 24 hours
- Tex-Mex made by Greek-Americans is pretty good
- Steak: also really good, if you're willing to pay for it
- If you can, go to Texas de Brasile...unless you happen to be a vegetarian
- I made the Dallas paper. This makes me laugh, but at least they didn't ferociously misquote me
- I didn't see/meet anyone famous
- I did see a ghost, and yes it was spooky as hell!
- Got to see Ian Fairclough speak; I think I'm a very weird groupie
- I sat by two French guys flying to Dallas and a middle-Eastern (I think, maybe) guy on the way home; I must be the Deals Well With Furr'ners person
- Spent a LOT of time in the exhiibits
- Picked up about 7 new carrier bags, along with the freebie they dole out at registration to everyone
- Filled four (five?) bags full of books and other freebies; Beast is driving them home for me :-)
- I got sicker most every day, and bailed on two OCLC breakfasts...
- Having no voice makes talking to exhibitors all day difficult
- I stayed in three hotels in five days. That was weird, but kind of fun
- One of the hotels was quite a ways from the conference site, so Beast drove me back and forth; there was, however, a conference at that hotel, of gift shop owners....
- ...gift shop owners' conferences seem to be full of snooty 20-somethings, but I snagged an abandoned carrier bag that is absolutely amazing...I will take a picture once Beast gets it home
- The convention center...? Not in a great part of town, though they're working on it
- Dallas drivers are insane
- We landed a full half an hour early today. How often does that happen in January?!
3 thing(s) to say:
Sounds like a GREAT trip! Sorry you were sick, though, that's a major bummer.
Welcome home!
I <3 Ian Fairclough! That is SOOO cool - I am seriously impressed and jealous.
K: Thanks! Sorta good to be home, though I still don't feel great, especially this morning
A: The thought of him Googling himself and reading this makes me giggle. He's very much what I expected, but yet not, from his listservs and posts.
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