I'm too cheap to pay for the WiFi at the AGPA conference, so I wrote my articles yesterday, saved them on the laptop, and only this morning, uploaded them. It will be interesting to see what sort of reaction they generate. Some people seem unsure about how to deal with the press at the conference and I'm trying to walk a fine line between observing and participating and between reporting and respecting confidentiality and privacy.

Last night was the Group Psychotherapy mailing list dinner. There were over fifty people there, many of them were long time friends from the list, that I've never met face to face. People asked how they looked compared to the expectations I had developed from meeting them online. The one general difference is that everyone seemed much younger than I imagined them. I suspect that a lot of this gets to standard expectations, stereotypes and exemplars. From the list, I've developed a great respect for many of the participants. I view them as kind and wise, attributes that I normally associate with older people. One of them has recently had knee surgery, something my mother had last year, and a friends mother had the year before, so I particularly expected her to appear much older than she did.

Oded and Dr. Bob at the GP Dinner, originally uploaded by Aldon.

In order to keep the front page of my blog balanced between many of my interests, I am only leaving this post on the front page right now. My other recent posts about the AGPA conference have been filed in the newly created sections, Conferences and Psychology. I would encourage people interested in the AGPA conference to follow these links to read my other articles about the AGPA conference.