Conference over! WHEW. BIG WHEW. Don't look for me tomorrow, I'm not gettin' out of bed ( Read more... )

You gotta love a department where people are like, "Sure, sleep under the registration table for a bit."

On the other hand, I really wish that the word "metonymy" did not make me CRINGE.

Presentation over, gotta scoot.

Ow ow ow! And in other news, I'm coming up on 12 hours awake. I know this is a normal span of day for most people, but there's something about starting your day at 5:15 and not quite knowing when it's gonna end that just makes it seem so looong. It's not bad when there's things to do, but the downtime is killer ( Read more... )

Day 1 of conference. Predictably, the front end looked pretty good while the back end paddled furiously (or so I heard). The OGS wormhole apparently has moved into the SUB, since they had no clue we wanted projectors and laptops in the rooms. Uh, whee? So my laptop was conscripted, and I assume the same'll happen tomorrow. Remind me to leave a ( Read more... )

Conference starts tomorrow. I am not presenting, though twenty-four hours ago I was certain to. That's the bad part about some nasty data failures--even if you have the paper, if you don't have the data you used to back it, it feels like walking on a cloud: you never know when you'll fall through. So I thought, I'll do this other thing, but then ( Read more... )