It's about to begin
The general session will start in about 30 minutes, and I'm blogging from the lobby directly outside the general session ballroom. The bass is thumping, the lights are swirling -- I feel like I'm about to stop into a nightclub! The first 30 minutes of last year's annual meeting are an unforgettable time for me. Those first 30 minutes influenced me enough to believe that last year's annual meeting was the best annual meeting ever. It is now the standard by which I compare every other event I go to, and it's a very hard standard to live up to. Which leaves me feeling a little nervous for ASAE & The Center. Can they top last year's fireworks? Can they impress us just a little bit more than last year? I certainly hope so, but Nashville will be tough to beat. And I've got some skin in the game too: I've been telling people they simply CANNOT miss the first 30 minutes of the general session. So my reputation is on the line, too -- well, just a little.