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Recently back from SunGardHE Summit 2007.  Although the quotes were not as forthcoming as they were for Summit 2006 in Orlando, here are a few I still managed to jot down:

1. Sara - “I’ve been really good so far. I’ve only bought one little monkey onesie.” (Sara has a baby clothing shopping addiction.  If you saw how cute Zach’s and Sara’s son Xander is, you’d understand how this addition could become habitual.)

2. Zach - “Don’t they know that 70% of the people who work in higher education are women?” (Zee said this when discussing the jaw dropping kick-off ceremony for Summit 2007, which included dancing women in fishnet stockings and school girl outfits and Scott Adams opening comments related to losing two jobs because he was male and not a female.)

3. Dee (me) - “I know, I thought that is discrimination, until they brought out the shirtless dancing men.” (My response to Zee’s quote above.)

4. Joe L. - “He’s waiting to beat it.” (Joe said this when Dan pointed out some guy on the floor at the Hootie concert, wearing a hawaiian shirt and a white glove on his right hand.  Dan asked what is the glove for? Joe responded with the quote above.)

5. Royce - “I know people who know people.” (Royce told us this after he proudly did his best Vanna White display of his Hootie VIP pass.)

6. Jeffrey - “Don’t come home a lush!” (My husband said this to me, after I called from Vegas and confessed that I drank 4 Fat Tires at the Collaborator’s Lounge on Monday night, 6 Coronas and a Hurricane on Tuesday night, and a Whiskey Girl drink at Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill on Wednesday night.)

7. Dee (me) - “Do you know who you married?” (My reply to Jeffrey’s comment above.)

8. Skyler - “I won’t give you my kidney” (I met my friend Kim after the Hootie and the Blowfish concert. She was with two guys, Skyler and John, from the Univ. of Ithica.  We walked around the Bellagio together, and Skyler, not prompted, kept saying this quote to me.  Am I missing some obvious movie or tv reference?  Is it some kind of inside joke?  Are all people from the Univ. of Ithica that weird?) 

9. Kim - “I got his digits” (This wasn’t a verbal quote, but actually was a text message I received from my friend Kim at 2:30 am, Vegas time, early on Wednesday morning. So at 2:30 am when my phone was beeping, fearing it was some kind of emergency, I dragged myself out of bed to see what the message was.  This was after I had passed out; after seeing Hootie and the Blowfish in concert; after drinking six Coronas and a Hurricane; after walking from the Excaliber to The Mirage in really uncomfortable high heel sandals with some weird guy who didn’t want to give me a kidney even though I didn’t ask for his kidney; after finally falling asleep despite the pain in my feet and liquor in my body.)

10. Dee (me) - “Oh no Kim” (My reply out loud to myself in the hotel room as I read the text message at 2:30 am.  I don’t think my friend Kim will be text messaging me awake again anytime soon!)

11. Ken - “Black 17.” (Our new DBA Bill told Ken to play Black 17 in roulette. Ken remembered Bill’s advice, and right after he mentioned it to us, the little silver ball stopped on Black 17. Unfortunately Ken didn’t move his chips from just Black to Black 17.  He should have listened to Bill! He still came away a winner though.)

12. Brian Madocks, Sungard Higher Education - “What I learned in Vegas stays in Vegas.” (Said to not respond with this way when asked “What did you learn at Summit?”)