So looks like the O’reilly Graphing Social Patterns Conference in Sand Diego will be the first tech conference I go to. While I would love to act non-chalant about it as if its no big deal, I’m crazy excited! So I thought what the hell, lets make this a Series Post, about what its like for a first timer. I have no idea what to expect, how to act, let alone what to wear.

So my Co-Worker Mohammad and I left Orange County, about an hour and a half away, at 2 am. Ya fun times, its all about the road trip. Although for people in Southern California, an hour and a half drive is nothing, some people commute for over an hour. The people in the Bay Area know what I’m talking about. We drove and talked about how excited we were at meeting all the people we have been following for the past few years, and hopeful at all the opportunities this could open up for us. I couldn’t help but think though that we were setting our expectations a bit too high, so I said that we should just go expecting to learn and anything else that happens is icing on the cake. Coming on behalf of a startup, we wanted to be as frugal as we could, so crashing at a friends pad was the order of the day.

So its 4:00 am now, I’m sitting at my friend’s Mac(grrrr), and I cant figure out what I need to wear. I know I sound like a total girl, but like, what does one wear at a Tech conference? I’m sure at all the other corporate conferences its suits and ties up the wazoo. But with this chill attitude startups take, is everyone in flip flops and shorts?

So I’ll be updating throughout the day how the conference is going for me. I’m really excited, let’s go O’reilly!