Letting it slide
Tomorrow morning marks the formal start of a two-day conference I’ll be participating in for work. While I really enjoy all the intellectual and professional connections I make at these sorts of events, I’ve been a bit on edge because I’ll be giving a short talk for this one…and I’m not done preparing my slide deck yet.
So you can imagine my relief when I was chatting with one of the major presenters for this conference at the opening reception tonight — someone with one of the mighty animal-cover books to his name — and he said that his day-long presentation tomorrow contained NO slides. YESSSSSS!
As long as people don’t walk out of my talk muttering to themselves that my animal avatar is the mighty WOMBAT (Waste of Money, Brains, and Time), I’ll be content.
I had never seen the list of O’Reilly animals before. I note with glee that “Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell” has the Liger as its animal.
[…] Ding dong the… Well, okay, there is no witch and certainly no dead witch. However, I did manage to live through a day I had been anticipating for about a year, the biggest conference talk I have ever done in front of the scariest and most intimidating audience I have ever had to stand up in front of. It appears as though it was not WOMBAT since the feedback has been pleasant. And most importantly, I made it through. Anything that doesn’t kill you… Funny thing is that now, having gotten through that, I am having a really hard time getting on with doing anything else, I feel like I deserve a big vacation and not a big deadline tomorrow… And I can say that it does not even seem to be registering that I am in the US since I am stuck in a closed conference site with all the catering and accommodations included, and a large EU contingent represented. I could be anywhere. Explore posts in the same categories: America, engineering, science, time, travel, world […]