tiredness

[dancingyel]

elaine is tired.  not enough sleep, although i'm glad i went to bab5 yesterday.  it was nice to hang out with people, chat, and just lay around on a foof chair and be cuddled.  lots of head-scritching and general hugginess.  yay.  but then i had to get up super early today to deal with car stuff, and that was unhappy...both in the getting up early and in the actual dealing with it part.  not a fan of mechanics, especially ones who patronize me.  blah.  must bring my dad with me next time or something.  and now it's more hassle to deal with it all...rent a car, leave my car at shop, figure out insurance stuff.  meh.

on the bright side, my supervisor is going to talk to my pi (principal investigator) today and find a data set for me to present at a conference in november...the deadline for abstract submission is in 3 weeks, so i need to get started now.  yay!  exciting stuff!

ok, back to work.  thank goodness for weekend coming up.

Comments

[billtsalamander.livejournal.com]

Where is the conference? That's the most important part. The whole point of conferences is an excuse to get a free trip somewhere, and to accumulate swag. ACM's Solid Modeling conference was pretty lame for swag, but they did feed us every day for a week and it was at MIT. At MIT for the weirdest weather I every saw. I swear it was 90+ and then dropped to 40 in one day. ASME in WDC in '03 was pretty awsome; I was an invited speaker for the robot head so they put me up for free in the super-posh hotel the conference was in. I really wanted to go to ICRA '04, another robot head paper, but I had midterms so I couldn't go; it was in New Orleans during the Jazz Festival. That would have been awsome.

[dancingyel.livejournal.com]

heh...the conference is in LA, which isn't particularly exciting, but i'm sure i'll have fun anyhow.