time

it has almost become the norm - rushing last minute to complete a (fill in the blank)...

- presentation
- paper
- project
- .... you get the idea

the norm today was an hour and a half conference presentation that my boss and i started - last night of course!

woo hoo!

it was a topic that i've put a bit of work into in the past - and a powerpoint was prepared, by me of course. the plan: i steer the computer, he does all of the talking. i'm fried these days so unless it involves ecology, i'm more than happy to sit back and click away.

if this had been a long time ago i might have panicked - a talk - a long one at that - in front of professionals. but now... i was calm. i just did what i could and we made our way down to the conference room.

i focused the entire time -this was in part a live demo, i had to keep up with what he was saying- and try to anticipate which one of the many, many, many datasets were we using, - what would he would want to bring up and manipulate next?

it's all in a day's work i guess... and with this i feel i've earned an early day home. the day started early enough to allow 8 hours to pass... and chaya made a special request to chase me around on the rockhopper tonight (i'd be on the rockhopper of course - she has yet to learn how to ride a bike)...

is it really the 16th? is it really that close to my exam? hard to believe so much time has past...and the weird thing is that i'm almost looking forward to it as then it will be done and behind me....

phew...