CAN conference - Day 1
Hilights of the day:
One of my supervisors colleagues, from back in his Master's days, called me a Superstar. Sweet!
I hop out of the cab, jet-lagged and haggard, tired as fuck and one of the other conference-goers says that they're headed to a bar and I should join. I threw my bags in my room, literally, and joined them. Good way to start. No one knew my name, I was just simply "Saskatchewan". I think they still don't know my name :S Meh. Responding to "Hey, Saskatchewan!" when standing in a crowd maybe wasn't a good idea.
My supervisor's colleague called me "Saskatchewan!" It gets better. He then told me to give Supervisor a hard time for not coming. He also told said, "Dude, once you go to sleep, jet-lag will catch up. I don't think you want that.".....and offered me a beer. It's been a good night so far.
I decided to finish the beer and come up and finish some work while I have internet. Service sucks, so I figured I should get some work done while it's good....that and I have no idea what bar the young'uns went to, so I'll get this shit done. ...if only the abstract submission site wasn't bogged-down busy. Damn.
Either way, it was well-worth the trip and I'm felling pretty good about where I am in the world and the colleagues I'm surrounding myself with.
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