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title: 'AoIR 4.2.1'
date: '2003-10-17T06:01:55-04:00'
permalink: /aoir-421/
tags:
    - conferences
---

The conference has been fabulous so far, but I think the highlight for me, personally, has been reconnecting with old colleagues (David Silver, Tara McPherson, and Michele White from the NEH seminar a few years back) and getting a few faces to put with the names of folks I’m coming to consider new colleagues. Had a drink and a great conversation with [Liz](http://mamamusings.net) yesterday evening, and then dinner with [Jason](http://misc.wordherders.net). There’s always a little *frisson* in making those first IRL contacts after a purely electronic crossing, but my meeting-up with [George](http://ghw.wordherders.net) this summer broke the ice a bit. It’s also nice to be, if briefly, in a group among whom this blogging thing is taken a bit seriously.

On to the next session.