Kathy said around mid-morning on July 30, 2007

I swear this is the last time I go on about this conference, but to make it digestible:

• Rooming with Y and Lena was a hoot.  Even though their stuff covered 98% of every available surface of the room and there was bean dip on Y’s pillow… I think I laughed more during those times in the room with those two then I did anywhere else.
• Lisa likes when her cocktail looks like a swamp.
• Did anyone else notice the radioactive hot dog relish they served?
• I got Amy Sedaris to sign my book and she wrote “Drinking Kills Feelings”.  I tried to remember that when I was on the plane on Sunday going home.
• During the cocktail party at the Childrens Museum, I got a little bored and went to hang out with the smokers crowd because, thats where all the real fun happens.  As a reformed smoker, I know this.  There was a casualty, but thanks to industrial sized TP, everyone recovered.
• I still have the song “Juicy Lover” stuck in my head and not because we heard it on the radio but because Y serenaded some strangers with it on the elevator.
• My room number was 2603 and if anyone was there, that rooms rate is now double the price because guests are going to request “the room where all those BlogHer chicks ate 40 cheeseburgers and dry humped each other and then got kicked out by gigantic security guards for being too sexy”.  Though for future reference… if you ever have a hotel party, don’t serve bean dip because people sit on your pillow and that’s probably a recipe for disaster.
• I stole all the Bliss products I could find within a 5 mile radius.
• I totally dropped and smashed a full glass of champagne on the floor of the W lobby.  *curtsey*
• Thanks to thunderstorms in Atlanta, we sat on the runway in Chicago for 3 or more hours before we took off.  I killed my feelings of internal rage with wine even though I swore that very morning I would not drink for the next 6 months since I probably pickled my liver in champagne over two days.

I am really glad I got a chance to go.  To be honest, I didn’t really know too many people there.  I knew a handful but I’ll say that there is something cool about meeting a blogger BEFORE you ever read their blog.  So instead of reading a blog and conjuring up an image in your head of what you think they are like, you get to meet them first hand and then reading their blog after is so much more accurate and many times funnier because you can see them saying things in your head.  I’d list all the people I met but we’d be here all day, I just know that I have a lot of blog reading to catch up on and lots of new people to start reading.

I got home after 9 hours of traveling and was welcomed with a happy little boy and a very relieved husband.  Can’t wait to see everyone next year.  Next stop… SXSW.