Shonan 23 over and done with - pretty much

[jeanieofoz]

So the conference finished on Friday afternoon and now I'm back home. The conference was good and I think I learnt something out of it- at least that is the statement I'm sticking to. I kind of ended up taking over the leadership of the group, not that I really intended to do that, but it was what happened. Perhaps that was because everyone in my group recognised that I had been to the conference before and knew how it worked. Perhaps it happened because I'm pushy. Either way, noone else really stepped up to the plate and I ended up leading discussions and pushing for things to happen. The othere were more than happy to organise the extracurricular activities, which I really had no interest in. I was so tired all the time after the WorldCon the week before, and I really didn't have the inclination to participate in either the trip to the beach (which actually morphed into Karaoke) or staying up late on Thursday night after finishing the presentation, to drink and talk til half past two in the morning (probably should have gone through the presentation a couple of more times though- got through it once under time so i thought we were good- yet ran overtime in the actual, and cut off the speaker before me to keep the program on schedule - one of the organisers later thanked me for setting an example. Me? I just didn't want everything to run on because then i wouldn't get to eat before the report writers' meeting and I wouldn't get away on time which would have screwed up my plans to get back in time to sign for this month's scholarship on time. Work screwed up my plans anyway after i missed my optimal bus :/). Besides there was a bloody typhoon outside my window (not that i really noticed it after my head hit my pillow). I was having enough trouble staying awake in the morning lectures because of fatigue or maybe exhaustion is a better term for it. I am losing my English skills :( I am unfortunately that everyone was probably aware hat i spent more time in the morning sessions asleep rather than awake. An I have a skill for grumbling. hope nobody from there finds this page.

I still have to write the report for one of the Keynote speakers, and do it by Friday. I just keep putting it off though which does not help. I could have done it today but i slept instead. And i will have only a little time this week to do it so i will have to get cracking.
so it isn't quite over for me, which I guess is the whole point of this