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Conference!
13 January 2006 00:08I am so tired. Dead on my feet kind of tired (except I refuse to go to bed without dinner, so am keeping myself awake to cook and eat!)
Long day. Fantastic, but long. ( Conferences are fun, but very very tiring indeed! )
In conclusion, conferences are really a lot like LOTR conventions, only the people are mostly older chaps with weird hairstyles, and there aren't as many funny bits!
Tried to explain fandom communities and politics to my PlantSci (less bee-loving) supervisor - I think it scared her, but she accepted that after that, science politics (which work in a very very similar way, right down to BNFs and minions and silly wars over nothing, and getting ahead cos of who you know not what you write) didn't worry me as much as they might!
On the plus side, I can have a long, hot shower tonight (last night I had a short, freezing shower cos the hot water really was dead for the evening - went to bed with a hot water bottle filled from water heated in kettle!), and don't need to be in the lab till 10am tomorrow, so yay mini lie-in!
Long day. Fantastic, but long. ( Conferences are fun, but very very tiring indeed! )
In conclusion, conferences are really a lot like LOTR conventions, only the people are mostly older chaps with weird hairstyles, and there aren't as many funny bits!
Tried to explain fandom communities and politics to my PlantSci (less bee-loving) supervisor - I think it scared her, but she accepted that after that, science politics (which work in a very very similar way, right down to BNFs and minions and silly wars over nothing, and getting ahead cos of who you know not what you write) didn't worry me as much as they might!
On the plus side, I can have a long, hot shower tonight (last night I had a short, freezing shower cos the hot water really was dead for the evening - went to bed with a hot water bottle filled from water heated in kettle!), and don't need to be in the lab till 10am tomorrow, so yay mini lie-in!
