ABLE Bioblog

(You have to say it like you’re a British darts commentator…)

I’ll be the first to admit I’ve been a little slack in the conference-blogging department; more on that below. But today we reached a milestone that is definitely blogworthy – our 180th registrant! Needless to say we’re very pleased with the interest in the meeting this year, and we’re fortunate and grateful to have the support of the Dalhousie Biology Dept., the Faculty of Science, our vendors, and all those individuals who are helping us pull it all together behind the scenes. We’re looking forward to meeting all 180 of you (maybe more??) very soon!

(It’s a pity that we can’t accommodate 300…I could really have some fun with that…)

I have discovered the conundrum of conference-planning blogging…activities related to organizing a conference fall into three broad categories: (1) Fun Stuff, (2) Challenging Stuff, and (3) Boring Stuff, none of which are particularly conducive to blogging. I could regale you with stories of spreadsheets and deposits, but really, once you’ve seen one “COUNTIF”, you’ve seen them all, haven’t you? The Challenging Stuff certainly gets a lot of lip service from Mindy and me, but probably isn’t professionally appropriate blog fodder. (Future hosts – go ahead and ask us all about it!) And the Fun Stuff, frankly, we’d like to keep to ourselves, so as not to spoil the surprise or set you up for disappointment. So it’s been a bit of a sparse blog. But, now that we’re heading into the home stretch and are into the i-dotting and t-crossing phase, I think I might be able to relax enough to eke out a few more posts.

See you in three weeks!

Jen

Jen and Mindy discuss where to hold the opening reception.