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[aryanhwy]

Tomorrow I'm giving a talk in Bonn (Germany). Arrangements were made for this just over three weeks ago, at which time I had this idea, which I thought would work out, and I rashly said "I'll give a talk on X" where X was that idea. About half of the last three weeks was spent on a translation project for my promotor, which he needed to have by Dec. 1. So my time was split between writing up my thoughts on my idea and frantically translating. Got the translation sent off on Tuesday, was very productive on putting together my talk on Tuesday, thought I had all by the final bit figured out...by the end of Wednesday I realized that over the course of the day I'd deleted everything I had written the day before, my idea didn't work, and I was so frustrated that I was nearly in tears as I tried to explain to Joel why my idea didn't and how I felt like I had nothing new to say in my talk. I talked my way through it, and he gave me some very useful feedback, and helped me regain my perspective, and today I spent 4 hours converting 12 pages of text in 56 slides - for a one hour talk. Something seems a bit disproportionate here...but at least I'm 100% sure that I won't run out of things to say.

And then I'm taking next week off. There's two workshops happening in Amsterdam, one Monday and Tuesday (PALMYR), and the other Wednesday through Friday (COMSOC), both of which I'm planning to attend most of the talks of, which will be a very nice break from frenetic translation and frantic talk-preparation.

Comments

[snowy-owl30.livejournal.com]

Isn't it wonderful to have a caring, understanding and listening husband.

I'm thankful I married mine too. :-)

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

After two and a half years of marriage, I'm still continually amazed that I managed to catch someone so smart, sexy, and sensitive. It's just a simple fact that I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now if I hadn't had his support every step of the way.