Like band camp, but geekier

At the end of this month, I will be making my annual trek to Toronto for the OLA Superconference [1]. And I’m looking forward to it in almost the same way you’d look forward to minimally-supervised field trips in elementary school – it’s a chance to get away from your usual surroundings, see new people, and do things you can’t do at home. Oh, we’re not going to loose all control – we are librarians, after all – but we do have a full slate of activities to do once the work-related stuff is done, like:

• Meeting up with various people who live in and around the city who aren’t officially librarians (hey Jorge! Hi Jackie!)
• Go to that really tasty Mexican restaurant that none of us remember the name of, or where it was, except that moments before we found it we’d seen the MTV building.
• Steve and Karen are trying to get tickets to see a taping of The Hour for a whole pack of us.
• This will be the year that we finally get our act together and go on an honest-to-goodness pub crawl. Most years, we wimp out before we get to the first one – this year, we’re going to hang on until at least the second place (I’m taking suggestions, seeing as none of us live close enough to Toronto to know the bar scene well)

So, if you live in Toronto, be prepared for a very sober group of librarians to invade, starting sometime around the 29th. Chances are good you won’t know what hit you.

[1] Whenever I say the word “Superconference,” I want to do a Mary Katharine Gallagher.