ASIS&T 2006 was great! I met so many wonderful people. (Jenn and Ben, where are you guys? I miss you!) I met and/or saw massively big “names.”

I’m now at the Austin Hostel sitting outside using their wireless ($1/day) running my battery down. Tomorrow morning I head to the airport and get home fairly late thanks to an almost 5 hour layover at O’Hare.

I (sort of) apologize for not blogging much, but if it really bothers you then come yourself next time. As I said in my previous post, see Christina’s blog for posts on the conference. I did finally get to spend a few minutes talking with her this morning, to my distinct pleasure. I do have some notes and will try to get some stuff up “soon.” Of course, I have lots of schoolwork and housework and other things which must take priority. I also still have a good 80 or so photos to post (Oops! I’m uploading a bunch right now and I just took another 115 off of the camera.) So, “soon” is a very relative term.
Last night at SIG-CON, which is the humorous bit of ASIS&T, the newest (completely unofficial, for now) SIG—SIG-TAG—participated in SIG-CON. We wandered around the party with markers and post-its asking people if they wanted to tag things, or tagging things ourselves. Yours truly placed an antelope tag on Michael Buckland. Oh yes. I really did! I figured if the “bigwigs” could show slides about “squirrel sex” (sorry, you had to be there; or wait for me to post those photos) then I could tag Michael Buckland.

I had great conversations with people of all ages, statuses, and from all over. It really was an incredible time. I think I got myself on the Standards Committee but I’m not sure.
I went to the Education Committee meeting first, but almost no one, and no one official, showed up. I gave them a shot at me first…. I can hardly wait for ASIS&T 2007 in Milwaukee. I truly believe that I have found an organizational home.

OK, battery’s almost dead. Night all.