Conference day 1

The morning was devoted to breakfast and association business. The latter is, frankly, not something that particularly excites me, which left me free to explore the exhibition hall and the ins and outs of the wifi in the hotel.

 

One would think something like wifi would be pretty cut and dried in this day and age, especially when so many budget hotels offer wifi as part of one's stay. At this hotel (a Marriott), there are apparently different networks in the room and in the conference area, and the network in the conference area apparently only works in a part of that area, so I ended up just using the portable hotspot that's part of my Verizon service plan on my iPhone.

 

The sessions I attended today varied in subject matter, from the use of "politically correct" language in translations to a comparison of Russian and English words describing sounds. Tomorrow, the sessions I plan to attend have more to do with French than Russian.

 

The annual Slavic Division banquet was tonight, and it went well. The decision to hold it at a Tex-Mex restaurant was the right one to make, as the experience of previous years has shown that trying too hard to find a restaurant with a Slavic tie-in can very easily backfire.

 

Cheers...

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