As I write this, day one of the 2012 Midwinter Meeting has technically been over for a number of hours, but the time has given my wife and me some space to digest the day.
My wife took two courses. The first was on forensic dentistry, which she called "horrible" but "good" when she discussed -- over lunch -- the graphic pictures of murder and plane crash victims displayed as part of the lecture. The second had something to do with "dental materials" that sounded about as exciting when she described it as I'm sure it sounds to you reading about it now.
Overall I think we both had a good day, though as Kalamazoo natives from Michigan we'll both always wonder how people live and work in a city where traffic seems more at a standstill than moving at any given time. Seriously, how do you get your kids to school on time? How do you get groceries?
I swear half the lives of people who live in and around Chicago must be spent waiting in traffic.
But that's neither here nor there. The night ended with fried macaroni and cheese from The Cheesecake Factory in Skokie, so I have no complaints. And if that wasn't good enough, I checked my email a while ago and found that I'll have a press pass available for pickup at McCormick Place tomorrow morning, so hopefully this blog will pick up steam on Friday and Saturday.
Cheers till then.
The image above of fried macaroni and cheese from The Cheesecake Factory is by sarahinvegas and was found in the Flickr Creative Commons.
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