Trip Proud Again!

A while back I wrote about this expression, "trip proud" or "journey proud." It is that feeling you get when you are, as we say in Texas, FIXIN' TO go on a trip. This time my destination is not far away, just over to Austin from my Huntsville home. But I am excited because it is for one of my favorite annual events, TCEA. I love this conference and am promising myself that I will blog while there. Here are some things I am looking forward to:

• Meeting Tweets! I have already communicated with several. It will be fun to put faces with names.
• Librarian special interest group meeting, LIB_SIG! This meeting is one I never miss and, while I am not an officer this year, I always seem to be a bit involved with planning. Our speaker this year is Dr. Carol Simpson, copyright guru! Should be great! Also, I should mention right here that several years ago Marlene Woo-Lun and I had a conversation that ended up with Linworth Press taking us under their wing and supplying us annually with a great speaker. This ongoing support has been a huge factor in the growth of our group.
  
• Presenting! I used to get very anxious about presentations but over the years have come to enjoy them more and more. I will be presenting along with my favorite sidekick, Dr. Holly Weimar. We are talking about Web 2.0 and filtering
• Exhibits! Every time I go to a conference I tell myself I will lose all restraint over the exhibits, grabbing every freebie and losing myself to sensory overload. This time I am not even going to make that promise. Bring 'em on!

P.S. I just looked back via SEARCH for my previous "trip proud" reference...it was in June 2007 before a student travel class journey to Washington DC and New York. I sometimes forget how long I have been blogging and it was fun to reminisce. Does anybody else remember this expression? I got some responses back then to an LM_NET query which suggested it was a Southern colloquialism.