Tonight's Show Time

While I checked into my hotel yesterday (and can I say what a beautiful room it is!), the conference doesn't begin officially until less than an hour from now. I was going crazy not having an Internet connection, not finding a hot spot anywhere in this hotel and being too cold to run around town with my laptop looking for one, so I broke down and paid the $9.99 for 24 hours. OK, you can all stop laughing now. I realize it's a small price to pay for feeling connected to the world but still... So what am I doing in an hour, you ask?

I have orientation and legislative overview, followed by a general reception and then the real thing kicks into full gear. There will be a dinner, with greetings from the ADL National Leadership Chair, followed by the welcome from the National Chair and then Abe Foxman himself is going to address us. His talk is titled, "350 Years of Jews in America: Where We Are Today."

I know, I know, how can it get any better than this? I'll tell you! We will then have Anti-Bias Education in the Formative Years: the ADL Miller Early Childhood Initiative with Harvey Miller and Walkaround Ernie from "Sesame Street" -- and I'll get to have my picture taken with him! (Tho don't count on seeing that one, guys, unless I can get him to pose with just my arm/bracelets for identification.)

The poor person forced to follow Ernie is Gabriela Kohen, who will be performing "Decoding the Tablecloth" -- and I promise afterwards to come back here to the comments section and tell you exactly what that means because right now -- I don't have a clue. So check back later for how the evening went -- but not too soon because after all of this, all the young leaders are going to the lobby bar to get to know one another. Should be entertaining....