I haven't actually realized this until now, but I've been working on that conference for about a year, without really noticing. It's been eating an hour here, half a day there, and the last 2 months it began causing bouts of night-shift work. Being responsible for all the printable material does that to you...
Anyway, the conference itself is a blur... I listened to more key-note speakers than to actual sessions, and I spent a substantial portion of the conference wandering around the Lingatan Conference Hotel's beautiful grounds. The weather was fantastic, and I actually went swimming in the fjord twice (when there were as few stinging jellyfish as possible)... so my new outdoor record for sea bathing is October 3.
Some pics...
Beautiful autumn views, swimming proof and conference antics (ever seen a room full of 200 researchers doing a giraffe-inspired chair dance move?? It rocks...)
(Me and a colleague working night-shift in the bathroom with our laptops, so as not to disturb the other 2 people we shared a room with... is it 2007 or what?)
I also held a presentation, which went pretty well, and I think I scored popularity points with my audience by starting with sending everyone out of the room to get coffee and stretch a leg. (People came up afterwards and said they really liked that part... ;)
And what now? Well, now that my brain has decided to join the rest of me, I find that the weekend is upon me. Tomorrow I'll be teaching a tap class to a bunch of friends who are having a reunion, and in the evening I'm going to test the theatrical limits of my dad's old brown-and-orange sleeping bag onstage... More about this theatrical experimentation afterwards...
Life has no pause button. :)
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