Another night before I fly to a major academic conference, another night that I find myself helpless and paralyzed in the face of a presentation that refuses to write itself. On the plus (?) side, I have no job interviews to prepare for at Major Area Studies Conference, so I can devote a little more of my intellect to making this shit make sense. So it goes.
Little Frustrations
9 years ago
My airport shuttle is coming in 3.5 hours. I am not done packing and my paper needs work.
ReplyDeleteI'm leaving my house in, er, 2 hours or so to drive to my mother-in-law's house with my family. Tomorrow, I leave my mother-in-law's house at around 6am, take the commuter train to my train to the conference city. When I arrive at conference city, I go to a briefing by a research-relevant group that starts at noon. I then give my paper at 5pm. (At this point, I will not yet have checked into my hotel room, since I'm not at the conference hotel.)
ReplyDeleteI currently have no notes and no powerpoint for said presentation.
Coffee. All the coffee. This is my plan.
I have a history of being on panels where everyone except me uploads their paper by MASC's official paper-uploading deadline.
ReplyDelete@Rabs: Hi!
ReplyDelete@Ajnabieh: I can't wait to hear how that plan works out for you.
@Brian: Welcome! And yeah, that official upload deadline is total nonsense. It came and went before I even began to think seriously about my talk. Maybe I could have done something like that as a postdoc, but certainly not as a prof with a 4/4 load and jobs to apply for.
good luck!
ReplyDeleteGood luck. Also: love the Vonnegutian ending. *applauds*
ReplyDeleteHa ha! Not inktopiana...was frustrated that the boxes kept popping up and asking me to type stuff...it's just plain old Ink.
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