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Q: How do you get 50 international child neurologists into a room?
A: World Cup soccer.

Today was slowish. I'm in a long, long room with poster presentations at one end and a TV tuned to the World Cup at the other. While a session is going on, it's dead quiet; when one lets out, there's a bit of a flood, but it's not as busy as it was yesterday. I'm surrounded by pharmaceutical companies big and little, equipment manufacturers, disease associations, and medical publishers. Am sad to report that I just missed out on getting a plush alligator from the monitoring equipment guys down the hall. :(

So far, though, I'm doing OK. When there's a rush, I stand and hand out postcards to anyone who slows down, makes eye contact, or looks vaguely interested in our booth. Once in a blue moon, someone expresses more interest and I talk them through the site. All I really want to do is get as many copies of our URL out there and circulating as possible, so I'm cautiously pleased, and everyone who's taken an interest has said nice things about the site. I've even had people spontaneously come up to me and say how much they like it and that they tell their patients about it. So, yay!

Of course, some people do go past refusing to make eye contact, but such is life. (Particularly liked the guys who walked past my booth, one of them showing the other an OC box set he'd evidently just picked up at HMV. There are so many reasons to come to Montreal.) Also, I keep seeing people go past with cake, but I haven't yet managed to arrive at the refreshment tables in time.

In the intervals, which are many, I should be writing, but I'm clearing out my Hotmail backlog instead -- over 3 months worth. Today I did LiveJournal comments, so if you got a long-delayed reply from me, well, that's why. And when I'm not doing that, I bond with my fellow booth denizens. Not that that got me an alligator, but it is interesting.

Tomorrow is the last day for the booth, woohoo! (Then I get to tear it down and possibly attend a session or two.)

(Edited to fix the time -- this computer's clock is wildly off, and I don't have privileges to change it.)