Calgary!

I'm in Calgary this week for this conference. It has really been crazy in the run up to the conference. Not only have I had a poster to prepare (I present Wednesday afternoon), but I've been trying to finish some analysis that needs to go in the talk of one of my lab mates. But here's the other exciting part: my lab mate may or may not get to Calgary. First she had passport troubles and then (after several days of panic were resolved by getting said passport), she's still not sure she can get a flight to Calgary. Rumor has it that she caught a flight up here, but I haven't heard anything solid. It'd be nice to know exactly what kind of work I need to do in the next couple of days besides presenting my poster and attending conference sessions.

Anyway, on to the fun stuff. I rented a bike this year. Last year in Knoxville for this same conference, I wanted to do the same thing, but no one in Knoxville rents bikes (boo!). I pedaled around quite a bit this afternoon and found my way to downtown Calgary:



Later, I met up with Ben Luey, my roommate from Carleton my senior year. He's demo-ing his company's wares at this conference. We caught up and then went to the conference's welcome reception at a really posh hotel whereupon we saw many people we know and many more people we only recognize, but don't know, from past years. Good stuff.

Make sure to check out all my pictures from this week at http://mac.andcheese.org/calgary2007/. :)