Glass Half Empty

For now, at least. It's been a busy few weeks, all things considered. The fencing club startup has been pretty manic, but... the main problem has been work. My lab has been extremely busy, in the last couple of weeks at least, finishing up the Big Project that has been our primary source of funding over the last three or so years, but we're done now. We're all entering a transitional phase between big projects (though we've already been NDA'd on the next one, so someone obviously thinks it's important). Hopefully it'll give me some time to write up my PhD, at last...

The presentation I had to give went well, at least. I'm normally spectacularly rubbish at presentations: I freeze up, gabble and ... well, it's not pretty. This time, however, I decided not to even try to give any kind of professional presentation, just to study the slides, do the background reading and then give the talk like it were a lecture or a seminar presentation, with my usual asides and illuminatory digressions. It worked pretty well, all considering: despite their being guys in suits and ties, I found them responding a lot like students, which meant I could handle them like students and .... well, it all worked out. I shall have to remember that. Even my supervisor seems to think it went well.

I was going to try for a cut-down version of NaNoWriMo, just 10'000 words this year, but I don't think that's terribly smart, really. When I'm trying to write 120'000, another 10 grand is ... well... likely to be troublesome. Instead, I appear to be trying to help a friend write a rules set for a LARP he's running in the near future. Oh well. Roll on, the month.

The glass: half full | NaBloPoMo: 1/30