Mar 29, 2014 01:59
Busy week. And not enough sleep because neigbours. I can only work or sleep when those assholes are not partying and I had a presentation to prepare, two papers to edit and approximately a shitload and three things to read.
Maybe I needn't have made those slides, though. For some reason I'm a lot less nervous about speaking at seminars and conferences when I just draw things on the blackboard. When there are slides it somehow feels more serious, like it will matter a lot more if everything is not perfect. And, of course, it's never perfect. When people don't ask me enough questions, I feel like my talk is not interesting enough and when they ask too many I think either "stop interrupting, dammit!" or "I suck at explaining things". I just can't win.
And, finally, today. I came home from the Quantum Center after a few hours of tracking down papers relevant to the latest project (Some of them were written as early as the 1950s and even finding out where exactly they were published is complicated). I was tired and needed a break... Within minutes of turning on the computer I found myself looking up interesting facts about exotic plants, distant stars and particles that may or may not exist.
random thoughts,
science!,
work