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For your viewing pleasure, here are my thoughts from this morning just before the beginning of the conference:
It’s pretty intimidating to be here right now. Everyone looks about… fifteen years older than me at least. There is quite the kaleidoscope of nations here and right now I’m one of four women here. I think the vast majority of the populations is probably scientists who are actually presenting the papers rather than process people like I am… now. Also, they managed to spell my surname correctly, but wrote me as Mr. Jillian. Alas, there is always ONE mistake on any card, piece of mail or registration tag.
It sounds like they are basically playing 95.6 KOIT over the radio system, but I’m not so impolitic that I would sit here typing on my computer AND listening to my iPod as if I’m some impetuous collegiate. It’s truly a fish out of water experience and… I don’t know what to say to people. This is not just mingling, this is the dreaded NETWORKING. And networking on a subject I’ve only just become acquainted with. So basically I have no input to give anyone.
I think that the keyword over the next two days is ABSORB. Just take everything in and try not to worry too much about the… fish out of water-ness. And away we go…
Afterward, all I think now is asdflkjaweoialkhf. That is the text of a brain melting under extreme minutae.
It’s pretty intimidating to be here right now. Everyone looks about… fifteen years older than me at least. There is quite the kaleidoscope of nations here and right now I’m one of four women here. I think the vast majority of the populations is probably scientists who are actually presenting the papers rather than process people like I am… now. Also, they managed to spell my surname correctly, but wrote me as Mr. Jillian. Alas, there is always ONE mistake on any card, piece of mail or registration tag.
It sounds like they are basically playing 95.6 KOIT over the radio system, but I’m not so impolitic that I would sit here typing on my computer AND listening to my iPod as if I’m some impetuous collegiate. It’s truly a fish out of water experience and… I don’t know what to say to people. This is not just mingling, this is the dreaded NETWORKING. And networking on a subject I’ve only just become acquainted with. So basically I have no input to give anyone.
I think that the keyword over the next two days is ABSORB. Just take everything in and try not to worry too much about the… fish out of water-ness. And away we go…
Afterward, all I think now is asdflkjaweoialkhf. That is the text of a brain melting under extreme minutae.