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AACR: (Too) sunny San Diego

Greetings from San Diego -- or, as I've come to think of it, 'the surface of the sun'. Normally I’d spend this introductory, ‘scene-setting’ blog entry whining about how I’d rather be out playing in the Pacific. Not today. It was absurdly, oppressively, unjustly sunny outside. The sun streamed into the windows of the convention center, and attendees squinted and winced down the hallway. Some sat out on the patio, stretched out with their feet up on chairs sunbathing, but I don’t know how they did it. One trip out of the convention center for lunch left me sunburned and sapped. A darkened conference room offered sanctuary, but the doorway opened into one of those sun-drenched hallways. From inside the room, the hallway was nothing more than a blaze of white light.

Overall, today was a slow day, filled with educational sessions that were informative but not so newsy. Tomorrow the meeting kicks off in earnest at 7am…

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