Getting GASsed, day 0.5
June 18, 2008
Pre-conference day at GAS, and it was a GAS. Unless you’d signed up for studio tours or somesuch, all there was to do today was register at the Portland Hilton (and if you’re a volunteer, wend your way to my table to check in), and see who’d already showed up.
Well, that and–if you were among the select few who got in before it sold out–attend the pre-conference reception over at Bullseye. It was definitely the hot ticket in town–with grilled meats from a Bullseye lehr–but unfortunately stuffed to the gills and we turned a lot of people away.
But my seat, across from registration, was the best in the house: An amazing number of people I knew, or wanted to know, or just wanted to ahhhhhhhhh over, like some starstruck groupie, turned up. An even more amazing number became instant buddies and there were times that our little check-in table looked more like some hilarious cocktail party.