DC follies
As hot as Atlanta can get, it hasn't been that terrible and definitely not as humid as it could be. With that said, welcome to the sticky city of DC. Not knowing about the shuttle buses running from my hotel (it proves there's a difference between retro and just old) and the UNITY convention, I've been treking a good 6-7 blocks back and forth and looking sticky in the process -- not what you want when you're trying to impress recruiters and other conventioneers.

Otherwise, it was a decently eventful day. Spent most of the morning actually processing registrations. Don't know how a mundane volunteer assignment turned into that, although four hours of meeting people doing that stuff was probably better than four hours of stuffing really nice laptop bags with stuff.

Had good talks with a couple of recruiters -- it's nice when there are people who know what I do and can thus relate with what I'm looking for.

And as always with these things, it's nice to see plenty of familiar faces, whether it's the Atlanta chapter folks, the Atlanta alumni group and just others I've met over the past few conventions. However, this time it was a lot more imposing with a big opening reception at Union Station.

It is interesting as well to see the famous faces at a convention like this, especially since it's an all-encompassing minority journalists group. I spotted J.A. Adande at the hotel bar. Some reasonably well-known local TV personalities around. And for you ESPN folks, Dream Job runner-up Aaron Levine is at the convention, although I haven't gotten a chance to talk to him just yet.