I made it back to lovely Champaign-Urbana in one piece. Stopped for milk and bread on the way home last night, but had little else in the house. So I called my friend Jenn and asked if she’d meet me at Crane Alley for a bite to eat. Jumped in the shower and then went and met her for some dinner, beers, and conversation.

This morning I slept in a bit and then got up and got busy. I’ve finished uploading my conference/travel pics to flickr [Damn it! Why is this stupid set not in order?], caught up on email (mostly), tried to get the new ACRL@UIUC webmaster the access she needs to maintain the site, started on the laundry, got caught up in Bloglines.

I’m also trying to find out where the stupid freaking ants I have in my kitchen have come from, and are, so I can annihilate them! I have no issues with outside ants, but they are not supposed to be house pets.

I have no doubt that there are bills to pay, but I have to wait on the last week’s mail to be delivered before I spend all my remaining money on the wrong things.

I hope to start on some blog posts about my conference experience and maybe even some on the sessions I attended. One of the things that I have learned, though, is that I am not a conference blogger. Maybe I will learn how, maybe wireless will become ubiquitous, maybe hotels charging close to $200/night that can’t be bothered to have hot water to shave with in the mornings will stop charging for wireless, maybe airports will consider wireless a public service for those of us who have to spend 5 hours laying over in them, maybe ….

Anyway, I don’t seem to be much of a conference blogger. I did take a lot of pictures of slides (which maybe I shouldn’t really post?) that I hope to use to stimulate my brain when I do get a chance to blog the sessions. As I’ve said before, for some fairly prolific blogging of ASIS&T 2006 go see Christina’s LIS Rant.

One of the things I did in airports and on airplanes was to make more blog headers. I need to rename and upload them, and then change the code for the random number generator in the template.

Far more important is to get in the swing of school. There are things to do! I still need a solid thesis statement for Carole’s class and I need to start on the paper. Since I missed Allen’s class sitting in O’Hare last night, I need to listen to the archive and get caught up.

I did get registered for 2 classes for Spring ’07 while in Austin. I enrolled in Allen’s 590OH Ontologies in the Humanities and Kathryn’s 590RO Representing and Organizing Information Resources. There are several other course I am interested in, but will probably skip them. I need to sit down with Kathryn and do some serious talking about the rest of my CAS and my project. I need to come up with some Independent Study hours on things like authority control, faceted classification, automated classification systems, and so on.

At the moment, I need to go eat lunch.