It’s that time of year again. Time to pack my bags and travel to some random North American university to hang out with three hundred fellow education geeks and play the game “Who’s the biggest nerd in the room?” This year’s ResNet Symposium is being hosted by the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada, and it should be an awesome trip. For those of you who may not be familiar with ResNet, it’s the group of IT professionals on university campuses who provide support and education to students on their campus. It stands for Residential Networking and is my primary focus within our campus.  Once a year, hundreds of ResNetters journey to meet up, discuss new ideas, share strategy, and work to build a support network between their schools.

The next six days will be quite the whirlwind.  My boss and I fly out of Phoenix this morning and arrive in Fredericton at midnight tonight.  We’ll be in conference sessions Saturday am through  Tuesday pm and fly home on Wednesday just in time to be back at work Thursday morning.  The area we’ll be staying near looks to be absolutely breathtaking, and the weather looks perfect with a few rainy moments.  Beyond conferencing, I get to go whale-watching in the Bay of Fundy. Yay!

My bags are packed (pink, of course), and my passport is itching to be stamped. Just as a heads-up, I won’t have cell phone service from this morning until Wednesday afternoon, so if I don’t respond, please don’t be offended. Email and Twitter will be my primary forms of communication. Don’t fear, I’ll still be blogging!!!