Posted by fallsfall on May 21, 2006, at 20:41:03
In reply to Toronto news, posted by fallsfall on May 21, 2006, at 8:17:11
Deneb, Pseudoname and 10derheart were on time for breakfast. Poet, Auntie Mel and I were late (we'll have to leave really early on Monday so we are on time for the presentation!!!). It was a cool place for breakfast. When we got there there was a line outside, but we saw the others through the window, and we cut to the front of the line to join them at their 4 person table. The restaurant was pretty accomodating (especially when they figured out that we weren't going to take up another table). Deneb shared her breakfast with the 3 latecomers (it was some awesome waffle with some wonderful sweet cream sauce and strawberries and bananas).
Then we went to the conference to register and we all got these really cool laptop bags filled with tons of heavy paper that we carried around all day. We went to see the room that our presentation is in tomorrow. It is much less scary in real life than the picture that Dr. Bob had, so I feel better about the presentation. Now we just have to hope that someone shows up!! And I need to review Dr. Bob's slides because the thread he talks about always bothers me, so I need to get the bother out of my system before tomorrow.
Poet, Auntie Mel, Deneb and I went to see some of the exhibits and get some freebies. Some of the exhibitors were interested in our presentation tomorrow (and some of them just act really interested in whatever you say). We did talk to some people who were trying to get the pdocs to stop accepting bribes from the drug reps. They were quite interested in pdocs getting drug info from Babble, and asked for the URL. We even got a book about dreams (hardcover and all - it was really heavy to lug around all day).
But we didn't go to the shoe museum when we said that we were going to, and Dr. Bob showed up and we didn't, so he went to the museum by himself. Sorry Dr. Bob - next time we'll have to make more certain plans with you. If we knew that you were coming we might have changed our plans and gotten there on time.
After the exhibits, we met up with 10derheart and went uptown to meet Larry and then we did go through the shoe museum. Daisy, I wish you were there!!!! There were a couple of good pairs of red heels - and I thought of you. There weren't any shoes there that I couldn't live without, but I'm not a shoe person. It was quite interesting and they showed us the whole history of shoes (including chinese feet binding). I wanted to steal Gene Kelly's shoe for my daughter who like to ballroom dance, but I didn't.
Then we went for dinner at a Canadian favorite restaurant famous for its chicken and had a nice dinner. By 7:30 we were all exhausted and came home.
Tomorrow will be interesting! I think we are all a little nervous (as we should be). It should be fun!
(When we were at the conference some of us decided that it was like going to the zoo - we were observing the pdocs. They are kind of a funny bunch.........)
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