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All these days of late finishes and early starts have finally gotten to me. I conked out at 4 and we've got a conference dinner at 7, but I don't think I have the energy to go. There's a yuppy restaurant on the floor above me so I think I might just go there for dinner. I ended up leaving the conference 2 hours early too
I feel bad since they gave me a grant to come see and do everything, and I don't want to show my appreciation by not doing half of it, but I'm trying to make myself feel a bit better with the knowledge even if I did pay for my own ticket I'd still be going for a nap
Only do what you're comfortable with but remember some opportunities only come around once in a lifetime. Take what you can grab now.
Nobody goes to all the things! Sleep well, Re-brain.
You look after yourself. It does no one any good if you are too stressed/overwhelmed to fully enjoy the experience. I think an early exit sounds like the right strategy. Then you will be all systems go for Saturday/Sunday (if you feel like it). This should be a good experience for you - so take what steps to you need to, to fully enjoy the bits you do end up doing. It's a very mature response to realise that the gas tank is empty, and that you need time and space to refuel.
Ah damn it. You've just reminded me I need to do talking tomorrow :/
I've decided to just ad lib it. As long as I've got the names of the people I need to introduce I should be right
Oh, you’re chairing/ doing intro bits? Hand cards (can’t electrically fail) Name, is really cool to have here because […..] [Reason you hopefully agree with]. Paper. Then, thanks, state was interesting, open questions, ask a question if you want to start. If it gets too quiet, thank again and direct to the buffet if extant.
As long as I've got their names and where they're from I'll be fine. Besides introducing them and where they're all from, all I have to do is introduce myself and do a shortened version of the acknowledgement of country. I have the option to do whatever else I want provided it's within the time, but as long as those are all done I'm golden
Rather counter-intuitively I struggle more with speaking when I'm reading a script than when I'm ad libbing it. I struggle with memorising things and reading ahead so if I have a script my eyes will be glued to the paper, where as if I just talk for myself based off a loose collection of ideas I just sorta know what to say
Addenda: create yourself a persona for presenting. Don’t need a costume, just an attitude. You can do this!
I did actually buy fancy clothes to wear, so I will be costuming. But I certainly have an attitude so I guess I have both
Brilliant! Baku’s presenting pants should host the next tread 😺
assuming this is an academic conference, rest assured that everyone has skipped out on a few sessions.
It's a sort of cross and very diverse crowd. There's a combination of young people with state care experiences and profesional development types attending, and all of the workshop type things (idk what they're called) are run by mostly YP with a couple of academic types sprinkled through