The conference is up and running. There are two pre-conference sessions this evening (and I'm filling in as a session aide so I'm waiting for one to finish so I can collect the evaluation forms from the participants) and a bunch of receptions scattered around downtown. It was a pretty crazy day -- I filled in at the airport to greet people when some of my greeters didn't show and ended up covering at the information booth (which luckily isn't too different from working at the reference desk) when the nice volunteer there (who is also signed up to work at the conference so I had met her last week at orientation) had chest pains and we sent her off to the emergency room in an ambulance. I hope she's ok -- I gave her husband my cell phone to let me know how she was doing but I was pretty traumatized after that and left my phone in my car when I raced back to do the last part of my shift at the convention center (so if any of you have been trying to find me, that's why I haven't answered my phone for the past few hours).
Anyway, we'll be back at 6:30 am tomorrow to sign in our early morning registration volunteers!
Posted by Emily at September 17, 2004 09:03 PM