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Jun. 25th, 2003 08:46 amSeen on the front window of a catering place on the way to work this morning: Happy Pride! Eat, Drink and Be Married
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I'm back from my conference, as you might have guessed. "Back" as in "back at work", since I never left town. It was a pretty good conference, even considering the reduced numbers because of fraidy-cats who wouldn't come to Toronto. I saw some very interesting presentations, and some excellent speakers (rarely at the same time, unfortunately), went to a number of job-related sessions, and one session on kid's book awards just for fun. However, I think the theme of the conference was "the person who was supposed to give this speech can't make it due to personal reasons, so I'll be reading her speech for her, while being unable to figure out which Powerpoint screen goes with which pages of notes, and by the way, I can't really answer any questions because I really have no idea what I'm saying". Actually very amusing. I did also wander through the exhibits, but it was a little overwhelming, and very children's book oriented.
I think I've figured out what the trick is with associations and conferences -- you have to get involved with the subgroups and committees in order to actually meet anyone (or at least anyone that might be useful to you in the future). Of course, I probably won't ever go to another conference this size, and I'm thinking of dropping my membership in favour of more specialized associations, but it's a good lesson to remember.
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The excitement of the week: I'm going on vacation! I leave Saturday! I can't wait, as you might have guessed by the extraneous exclamation points!
I'm going to Vancouver to hang out with my parents and see various friends out there, including a side trip to Chemainus (on the island) to see the show that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vestra is music directing. I fully expect that this trip, like all vacations with my parents, will involve much eating and reading, along with wandering around. I'm so looking forward to being on vacation. But mostly, I'm looking forward to going somewhere where, unless the world has gone completely mad, it isn't 34 degrees, otherwise known as "feels like 42". (Until I moved out to Montreal, and then Toronto, I thought 20 degrees was hot. Hah!)
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Because I'm going to be away for the changing of the month, let's just take a look right now at how I did on my resolution for June, which was find a new hobby. Well, as it turned out, due to my new eat right, lose weight, be able to climb up the stairs without falling over plan (which, you'll notice, I'm not boring you with here because I have a whole separate journal for that -- don't tell me you're not happy about that) I no longer have time for hobbies. Who'd have thought that going to dance class or the gym every night after work, and then cooking actual dinner, as opposed to chips and salsa, would take up so much time? So, I'm taking that as one for me.
July's resolution is to see more movies. And you know, when I made these, I thought I was being all smart, because all I want in July is places to hang out that are air-conditioned, but I forgot about the fact that summer movies pretty much suck. So it might be a bit of a struggle.
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I'm back from my conference, as you might have guessed. "Back" as in "back at work", since I never left town. It was a pretty good conference, even considering the reduced numbers because of fraidy-cats who wouldn't come to Toronto. I saw some very interesting presentations, and some excellent speakers (rarely at the same time, unfortunately), went to a number of job-related sessions, and one session on kid's book awards just for fun. However, I think the theme of the conference was "the person who was supposed to give this speech can't make it due to personal reasons, so I'll be reading her speech for her, while being unable to figure out which Powerpoint screen goes with which pages of notes, and by the way, I can't really answer any questions because I really have no idea what I'm saying". Actually very amusing. I did also wander through the exhibits, but it was a little overwhelming, and very children's book oriented.
I think I've figured out what the trick is with associations and conferences -- you have to get involved with the subgroups and committees in order to actually meet anyone (or at least anyone that might be useful to you in the future). Of course, I probably won't ever go to another conference this size, and I'm thinking of dropping my membership in favour of more specialized associations, but it's a good lesson to remember.
...
The excitement of the week: I'm going on vacation! I leave Saturday! I can't wait, as you might have guessed by the extraneous exclamation points!
I'm going to Vancouver to hang out with my parents and see various friends out there, including a side trip to Chemainus (on the island) to see the show that
vestra is music directing. I fully expect that this trip, like all vacations with my parents, will involve much eating and reading, along with wandering around. I'm so looking forward to being on vacation. But mostly, I'm looking forward to going somewhere where, unless the world has gone completely mad, it isn't 34 degrees, otherwise known as "feels like 42". (Until I moved out to Montreal, and then Toronto, I thought 20 degrees was hot. Hah!)...
Because I'm going to be away for the changing of the month, let's just take a look right now at how I did on my resolution for June, which was find a new hobby. Well, as it turned out, due to my new eat right, lose weight, be able to climb up the stairs without falling over plan (which, you'll notice, I'm not boring you with here because I have a whole separate journal for that -- don't tell me you're not happy about that) I no longer have time for hobbies. Who'd have thought that going to dance class or the gym every night after work, and then cooking actual dinner, as opposed to chips and salsa, would take up so much time? So, I'm taking that as one for me.
July's resolution is to see more movies. And you know, when I made these, I thought I was being all smart, because all I want in July is places to hang out that are air-conditioned, but I forgot about the fact that summer movies pretty much suck. So it might be a bit of a struggle.