AIHce: Day -1

Still here in sunny, warm Denver.

• I walked at least 4 miles today. Guaranteed more than 2, since I walked to the end of the mile-long pseudo-pedestrian zone & back.
• My poster is hanging up in public.
• P from 3M walked into the brewery - where the student social was - and, after saying hello, my next sentence was
  "Hey, P, I need a job"
  P: "Sure, I've got two"
  Shock & awe: hot damn!
  P: "They're in Indianapolis & [some city]"
  Me: where is that?
  P: South Dakota
  sigh ...
• The reason you network at things like this is so you can call them and ask them to find the bag you left at the brewery & give it to someone heading back to your hotel.

I miss my husband.
I miss my children.

Tomorrow the conference gets into full swing. I've decided that I'm going to attend every single meeting/class that is involved in employment. Mock interviews, resume critiques, how to interview effectively.

Of course, I also plan to attend two of the big talks: First the president of UMW and second is David Michaels, author of Doubt Is Their Product. Damn, wish I had chosen his book to bring. Would it be toooo geeky to ask the Secretary of OSHA to autograph his book? Guess I'll never know.
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AIHce, Day -2

Items from Denver

• The more tan you get, the less natural your artificial blonde hair looks
• If you want to wear 2" spike heels ... you should first learn to walk in them
• It is possible for the ambient temperature to plummet 8-10F in 2 seconds with a single gust of wind
  
• A 3x3" piece of bread pudding with raisins should have more than 6 raisins. Although, since it was $6, perhaps it was being sold by the raisin.
  
• It is flat here
• Those crop circle looking things are irrigation circles
• You can't possibly look that much like Robert Downey, Jr. by accident
• Pedestrian zones should not have buses on them
• The beer at Rock Bottom brewery on 16th St. Mall is truly unimpressive. For $4.62/pt, I guess that's not so bad.
  

Items from Mpls

• When the entire purpose of going to a conference - and the only reason someone else is paying for it - is to give a poster session, it behooves one to actually bring the poster to the airport.
• When Southwest Airlines tells you that you can't have anything on your lap during take-off, they are serious about it.
• Southwest Airlines has the most efficient - bar none - boarding I've experienced in the past 20 years.