The AALS meeting is big and friendly and goes on for days.  This was my first time coming to the meeting, and I enjoyed seeing so many friends and acquaintances.  Washington itself seemed so familiar and accessible -- I think it's just because I haven't lived here for a while, but I felt very nostalgic.

In the midst of all this semester-break chatting, I was on a panel this afternoon that was also relatively friendly.  On my left was Josh Lamel from Sen. Wyden's office; on my right were Jim Speta, Mark Lemley, Phil Weiser, Howard Shelanski, and Christopher Yoo.  We succeeded in not giving presentations and had a lively conversation about (predictably) network neutrality and prognostications about the coming year. 

Tomorrow: back to work and whitespaces -- a hard look at an ongoing FCC spectrum proceeding.