Corporate & Securities Law

My Trip to the ACC Annual Meeting, in Might-Have-Been Tweets

By Ken Adams

A feature of my wary relationship with Twitter:  When I?m on the road and should, in theory, be regaling the world with salvos of bracing tweets, it?s the last thing I?m inclined to do. I?d rather experience things a fully as I can rather than devote part of my attention to providing running commentary. (For the same reason, I?ve never much been one for taking snapshots.)

But in the enforced idleness of a marathon weather-disrupted trip home, I summoned the following thoughts regarding the ACC annual meeting, presented as tweets that might have been:

• On the way to #ACCAM10. Traveller?s tip: For unencumbered travel, don?t bring w/ U 80 lbs of books to give away.
• Atlanta weather delays. Best way to appreciate size of Atlanta airport is to sprint from one end of C concourse to far end of D concourse.
• Have arrived at San Antonio Marriott Riverwalk. Happy to let bell hop manhandle books.
• Say hi to guys at Business Integrity booth. Enjoy pretending to be ContractExpress salesman; look forward to having Koncision booth someday.
• At hotel. Spend 30 secs admiring view so feel getting $$$ worth. Note uncanny resemblance to every Marriott room ever been in.
• Back at BI booth. Shawn Cheadle & Flo Pinigis (on my panel) drop by. Press copy MSCD on them whether they want it or not.
• Immune to charms of booth giveaways.
• Not inclined to mix business travel w/ sightseeing. But ashamed no plans to see Alamo.
• Quiet Mon. night & Tues. morning reviewing notes for panel.
• Room for contract-drafting panel size of airplane hangar. Surely some mistake! Maybe 400 people.
• Panel gathers; finally meet fourth member, Chris Koa.
• Mikes too low, so have to hunch, and need to talk right into them, so look like about to impart state secrets.
• Get thru session unscathed; end by saying have copies of MSCD to unload to true lovers of contract language.
• Scrum of people waiting at BI booth; 30 books gone in two minutes.
• Fun part of #ACCAM10 meeting is seeing contacts not met face2face, inc. David Cohen, Jeff Wheeler, Jim Brashear, and?gasp!?Jeff Carr.
• Started evening semi-crashing 1 party, then on to 2 others. Only disappointment = quality of margaritas downhill over course of evening.
• Nice having people introduce themselves, say how they enjoyed session, find MSCD useful.
• Heard how much Laura Williams paying for hotel room thru priceline.com. Gnashed teeth with envy.
• After final chat w/ Tim Allen of Business Integrity head off to airport much lighter than on arrival.
• More Atlanta weather delays! The usual chaos. Make it to Atlanta, then stuck.
• Down in tube station at midnite. Lost in supermarket. Need song about airport wee-hours anomie.
• Face-on-tray-table hardly = beauty sleep. Home after 23 hours.

Full post as published by AdamsDrafting on October 28, 2010 (boomark / email).