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I attended to Midwinter in Boston, and that was pretty hectic, even though I’d be told it was really no comparison to an annual conference. I believed it, but now I have a real concept of how ginormous this thing is.

Seriously, this conference is bigger than the word huge. In a city like Chicago, where everything is very spread out, it’s even bigger and more unwieldy. Some of the festive challenges I’ve faced thus far include:

- Wifi fun: The locations I’ve travelled thus far have only had pay wifi (there are hotel lobbies that have free wifi, and I just really haven’t had access to them). While I did put together a page of information on free wifi locations in Chicago for the ALA conference wiki, I’m finding it impossible to get to these locations and still keep up with the conference. So I’ve been trying to blog in my room at night, which has proven to be interesting after many exhausting days.

- Time? What’s that?: Even though I liberally sprinkled my schedule with open blocks of time, and have reorganized my schedule on the fly (I *heart* wiki pages for this) to afford myself more free time to blog and just chill, it’s almost like the time gets sucked into a black whole of unexpected incidences. Some of these happenings are good, like Dick Kaiser sponsoring me at the Proquest Scholarship Bash, or having dinner with fabulous bloggers. Some of them are not, like the unpleasant shuttle situations.

Both of these challenges have really put serious kinks in the whole “blogging as timely sharing” concept for me.

Cranking aside, I am having a good time. I s’pose I’m just trying to reconcile having a good time with doing my job (blogging) and having fun sharing (blogging).

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