Good morning, class!  How y’all doing?  Kathy‘s in the shower, so I thought I’d take a sec to blog.  I finally feel a bit rested, despite the fact that our alarm clock went off at 6:30am this morning for no apparent reason.

Saturday night’s Ellis Lab party was really fun!  As was Solspace‘s afterparty.  It was really nice to hang out with the EE guys.  And the lovely woman who poured the wine at Moonshine was generous, so a good time was definitely had by all.  If I recall correctly, I think I not only uttered “boobs” about 40 times, but the evening wasn’t complete without at least one mention of both hookers and vaginas.  It was very formal, can you tell?

Yesterday was such a good day! We were no longer nervous about our presentation, so we were able to relax and have a good time.  We met up with Susie Gardner, Lisa Sabin-Wilson, Peter Flaschner, Lucia Mancuso and Paul Chaney at the Moonshine Grille for our informal “designer brunch”.  Basically, it was an excuse to drink mimosas and pick each other’s brains.  Kathy and I were discussing last night how glad we are that we got to get to know everyone more. I’d met most of them in 2006, but this time, I feel like we all got to bond a little more. They’re all really top folks. 

After brunch, we hit the Exhibition Hall and scored a bunch of free stuff that may or may not make the cut when I repack, but I am intrigued by the freebie version of Microsoft Expressions that we picked up.  I’m an Adobe girl, but I was impressed by some of the features they showed in a Flash-like program they’ve created called Silverlight.  We also chatted with the people at Friends of ED, Izea and Zappos (who was wisely giving out free shot glasses — they know what’s up).

We got separated from the herd during that, but met up with Lisa so we could go do our respective interviews with BlogTalk Radio.  Let me just put this out there right now:  John Haven is a funny, funny man.  He was our host for the interview and also the VP of Business Development.  That was the most relaxed and fun interview we’ve done to date.  And John couldn’t have been more supportive in our endorsement. I think we all just really were having fun… in fact, we were all cutting up so much, we didn’t realize we’d gone live. haha!  Oopsie!  If you didn’t hear it streaming live, there will be a copy on the BlogTalk Radio website later on today, I believe. I’ll also post it here when I get home.  The WiFi cut out a few times while we were “on-air”, so there are some kooky spots, but that’s to be expected when a few thousand geeks are Twittering simultaneously in the immediate vicinity.  I’m looking forward to hearing our interview, as well as Lisa’s, who was interviewed right after us. She did great!

Last night, we hit up the Web Awards After-Party with Geeky. She is just so cute and funny. I’m glad we had a chance to meet up with her.  Again, I’d met her in 2006, but she and Kathy hadn’t met yet and I wanted to see her again, too.  We’re in the same hotel, so we walked over to this place called Emo’s, which is one of those clubs where it smells kind of like stale beer, insecurity and B.O.  Pretty seedy, but probably a decent place to hear bands. We had a couple free drinks, saved Kathy from some dude who wasn’t getting the hint and then walked back to the hotel.  Then Kathy and I ordered some room service and watched Sex and the City in bed… a bit more our speed. 

OK. I need to get my ish together.  We need breakfast and a proper cup of coffee.  Hope everyone has a great Monday!

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