Alan LevineYou enter a large ballroom or conference venue, full of groups of people having interesting conversations. Many people you know, quite a few you do not. Do you expect to be part of every conversations from start to finish? Do you mill about seeing where you can drop in? Do you rely on people later to tell you what you heard?
Professorsv@cogdog anxiously stand near the wall. Hope maybe to see some one I know, get into a conversation and then spend the res of the evening in self-recrimination - and feel bad that I missed out on all the other conversations.