Saturday, November 14, 2009

I'm looking forward to...

...sleep.

That's really about it. I arrived in the conference city Friday night, after getting 6 hours of sleep the previous night. Then, because of the time shift, I had trouble sleeping, and had a wake-up call after only 4 1/2 hours.

Then, after 5 cups of coffee and one of black tea, and a too-big lunch, I delivered my paper. I've been told it went well, but I honestly have no way of judging, since I gave it while severely sleep-deprived. I ended up ducking out halfway through the final panel of the day (not mine) because I needed to be up and walking in order to stave off sleep. Caffeine works as liquid sleep for only so long.

I am exhausted, and will be hitting the hay before 9 p.m. local time, if all goes well.

There is still one more deadline to meet, Monday, but I'm sure I can do it. Then another week of classes, then I sleep for all of Thanksgiving week, if I can manage it. I've earned it.

3 comments:

Bavardess said...

Yay for the conference paper going well. Rest up - you've earned it.

Digger said...

Congratulations... on a successful paper, and on getting through it all! Here's to a week of sleep!

AliceAcademic said...

Congrats on the paper and enjoy the R&R over the break.