AA Convention — Day Two
I had an hour to kill this morning between sessions. I looked around a while trying to find someone I knew. Then it occurred to me, On a basic, fundamental level, I know everyone here—all 60,000 of them. So I sat down outside in the sun next to some guy from Baltimore and had a nice little chat.
After that, I ran into people I know from Rochester, Buffalo and Toronto on a startlingly regular basis. I’d excuse myself after a polite period and sought out people sitting off to the side by themselves—New Jersey, Las Vegas, DC, Ohio, the Bahamas—each very different, and with each I shared a core commonality.
I forget if I mentioned the other day that on the subway a lady from Perth, Australia sat beside me. This is just one stop in a two-month round the world trip she’s treating herself to. New York, London and Paris are her next stops.
There’s a whole group of Poles running around in red and white shirts with matching hats. I’d heard about them and literally bumped into them this afternoon. What a fun bunch!
I’m skipping the “big meeting” tonight, everyone all at once in the Skydome stadium beneath the CN Tower, in favor of a disco nap before the IAC dance later. I’m really looking forward to that. And I’m going “naked”—that is, without my security blanket of backpack, diskman and cell phone. Yikes!
