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title: 'Report from the Blogger Meetup'
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date: '2006-12-29T05:25:01-05:00'
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permalink: /report-from-the-blogger-meetup/
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tags:
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- conferences
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---
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Folks I’d met before, whom I was happy to see again:
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— [Chuck](http://chutry.wordherders.net/);
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— [John](http://www.thevalve.org/go);
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— [Scott](http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/);
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— [Dr. B](http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/);
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— [Laura](http://geekymom.blogspot.com/).
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A non-exhaustive list of folks I hadn’t met before, whose acquaintance I was very happy to make:
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— [Jonathan](http://jgoodwin.net/);
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— [Clancy](http://culturecat.net/);
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— [a white bear](http://istherenosininit.wordpress.com/);
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— [Amanda](http://householdopera.typepad.com/);
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— [Collin](http://collinvsblog.net/).
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Another non-exhaustive list of folks I never got to meet, and wish I had:
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— [Amardeep](http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/blog.html) and the other guys down at that end of the table.
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Quality of conversation: genial, fast-paced, multi-threaded.
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Number of glasses of wine consumed over what really ought to have been my limit: 1.
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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.
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Number of minutes before the first panel I need to attend, at the time when I actually wrote this post: 23.
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Number of minutes remaining once I actually got this posted: 4.
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Level of frustration with internet connection that keeps crapping out on me: high.
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Number of hours of sleep last night that too much wine and too much to think about resulted in: 3.
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Time and place of my next expected proper night’s sleep: Saturday, Paris.
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