---
title: 'Report from the Blogger Meetup'
date: '2006-12-29T05:25:01-05:00'
permalink: /report-from-the-blogger-meetup/
tags:
    - conferences
---

Folks I’d met before, whom I was happy to see again:

— [Chuck](http://chutry.wordherders.net/);  
— [John](http://www.thevalve.org/go);  
— [Scott](http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/);  
— [Dr. B](http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/);  
— [Laura](http://geekymom.blogspot.com/).

A non-exhaustive list of folks I hadn’t met before, whose acquaintance I was very happy to make:

— [Jonathan](http://jgoodwin.net/);  
— [Clancy](http://culturecat.net/);  
— [a white bear](http://istherenosininit.wordpress.com/);  
— [Amanda](http://householdopera.typepad.com/);  
— [Collin](http://collinvsblog.net/).

Another non-exhaustive list of folks I never got to meet, and wish I had:

— [Amardeep](http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/blog.html) and the other guys down at that end of the table.

Quality of conversation: genial, fast-paced, multi-threaded.

Number of glasses of wine consumed over what really ought to have been my limit: 1.

Number of phrases used by grad-school colleagues that I discovered weren’t, in fact, in popular circulation, and thus required some lightly embarrassed explanation: 1.

Number of minutes before the first panel I need to attend, at the time when I actually wrote this post: 23.

Number of minutes remaining once I actually got this posted: 4.

Level of frustration with internet connection that keeps crapping out on me: high.

Number of hours of sleep last night that too much wine and too much to think about resulted in: 3.

Time and place of my next expected proper night’s sleep: Saturday, Paris.