ACS in San Francisco

Before I can get to Spain, I've to make it through the ACS (American Chemical Society) national meeting in San Francisco. It's a well attended meeting of 10,000-15,000 people. Aside from all the talks (oral presentations) and poster presentations, it's also the most common place to run into old colleagues and people we went to schools with, people we have not seen or have lost touch in years. Big meetings like this can be overwhelming, but this time I tried using the ACS personal schedular to come up with a more practical plan rather than the usual multi-colored highlighting amongst the pages in the technical programs of the C&EN News. To my surprise it worked out well so far. I was not "talked out", and saw some very good talks. Hopefully I can retain all this memory so that I can still pull a report together when I get back from Spain.

a little Pitt reunion with Rosa and Ulrich (you all gotta check out www.skinnychef.com)
See, not all chemists are so nerdy, if you know us, we'll break the stereotypes of a chemist's dynamic personalities.