The inevitable....

[fjm]

So i have today to pull together a conference paper, and since yesterday I have been feeling distinctly "off colour".

The inevitability of this is so boring.

ps. Last year I said I would give no papers this year. Then an offer I couldn't refuse came up see here, but as the reasons I said I would give no papers have not actually changed, this is

Comments

[carl_allery]

Yes, I quite see the unrefusability of that offer. A fascinating topic. I'm sure you'll do an excellent job, but I hope it doesn't drag you down too much.

[the_changeling]

Oh, think of the horror of not doing it, and spending all your awake but trying to sleep hours going over all the things you could have said!

Onwards!

[solri]

I know that feeling. Less glamorously, I have spent the last three days grading papers with a stinking cold. Not that I'm using the cold to grade the papers, I'm ... see that's my brain on viruses.

[negothick]

Such an honour to be invited! Truly, you could hardly have refused. I'm sure you'll be "fine on the night."