Using my most applicable icon.

I've been poking at the ALA conference website for a little while now, and the biggest thing I've learned is that attending the conference will give me the feeling of drinking out of a firehose. The .pdf listing all the programs and events is one hundred and twenty one pages long. I kind of wish I was kidding, but I'm not. All I've done so far is register to get into the conference itself and one of the dinners; I've done nothing in terms of transportation and housing, let alone figuring out where I'll go, when that will be, and what I might or might not do. Like I said, drinking from a firehose.

There's a local student-based ALA chapter meeting next week. I'll see if I can talk to the president about finding someone to essentially hold my hand through the planning stages. I'll probably be fine when I get there - I plan on going through it by myself, and I know to bring books - but man, the anticipation and preparation aren't doing me any favors.

A little part of me wishes it was a small, cozy convention on the scale of BASCon or Con.txt, but I know that can't be the case when it'll be spanning at least five hotels.

Speaking of Con.txt, is anyone else besides deelaundry planning on attending?