The award dinner was a lot of fun. Two hours of cocktails and socializing with good people followed by a mediocre (at $65 a plate anyway) meal, followed by more drinking, being presented on stage, and then a group of us went to a local bar afterwards and drank some more.
I got to take home a professionally framed copy of the article and a really heavy steel trophy/award/thingy. I get a pdf of the article on Monday for anyone who wants to see it and haven't already on Facebook
It was a good time and a nice line item on my resume. In all It seems to have been a success.