The Schmooze

So, it turns out that meetings of this variety have substantial schmooze component!

Ok, I knew that, but somehow I imagine climate scientists and policy folks as largely unable to schmooze in the tradition of the socially capable non-nerds. Anyway, not only do these people schmooze, but they schmooze with delish wine, organic beer, organic vegetarian pizza, pumpkin ravioli etc, etc, etc! They do it while balancing these things in their hands and managing to shake each others. It's highly impressive. I suppose in an effort to initiate the young'ns, they organized a "social outing" for students and young professionals last night. It was, uh, dear. Some person from the NCSE escorted us to a pub and there we ate and mingled. It sort of smacked of a "children's" program, but I guess was nice.

Anyway, my lovely compatriots are more hardcore schmoozers than I expected. By which I mean to say that I'm exhausted. A true recap, I promise, for tomorrow.