Waitin' for the coffee

I'm downstairs looking at the not-yet-set-up breakfast bar for the last day of the conference. I want some grub!

Yesterday was predictably long: plenary session, session, lunch, session, session - none of them terribly memorable - and then skip out to meet with Gweekers and The Marmot Queen! We hung around the hotel for a bit, and then decamped to an Italian restaurant for dinner with the spouses (and a whole herd of tweens coming to see High School Musical at the opera house). Fun stuff.

After dinner, I hit a local game and comic store for a browse and then had a relaxing evening reading until folks started filtering back from being out, when I reconnected with some of my peeps.

Here's hoping today will be a more profitable exercise - and that were out of here on time!

Good morning!

I left out the best parts of last night - I got to spend a few hours in the company of Gweekers, catching up some more and deconstructing the tenure track. Good times! And I was video chatting Otis while I was posting in the lobby - cool, high-tech silliness. I wasn't nearly as cranky as that post sounded, and I'll be in an even better mood in a few minutes, when I'm outside of a good breakfast.

Otis sent me a psychedelic picture of her furniture re-arranging project, too: