scene from a pizza party

I have a big suite here at conference.  I'm grateful for it.  The association books a large block of rooms, and typically there are suites that the hotels include for the association officers.  I am fortunate that I am one.  And so I have a suite.  And it deserves use.

I call it a pizza party, but it was an opportunity to bring some EB colleagues together along with a few other members attending the conference to have an informal space to talk.  And wow, was there a lot to talk about.  No, not just association stuff or the conference, but our profession in general.  I recall a particularly robust conversation on one side of the room about AI in libraries, for example.  I'm glad that I got to use the space to harbour such discussion.

But we did have pizza.  Eventually.  Ordering mix up, I take much of the blame.

But most importantly, we had Ernie.  Sara and Peter's dog.  A cutie, and a mini-celebrity.  We certainly didn't mind folks giving him some affection while they talked.