Aftermath, pt.2

Apart from the presentation ‘first’, the conference was the first large one I’d been to in years. The last time I’d attended a big conference was during my student years. I’d forgotten how difficult it can be to find people in a big conference. I didn’t get as much time to chat with people as I would have liked, and found all the rushing around from keynote to presentation to keynote, quite tiring.

I would have liked to have had more time to talk with some of the presenters, too – there were quite a few interesting papers, and I found myself wishing there was a way to sit with presenters and have a good chat, ask questions, and so forth. I’m glad I took copious notes – I’d intended to write things up immediately after each day, but it just didn’t work out that way. Still, my notes are detailed enough that it’s hopefully not going to be too difficult to reconstruct things.

I’m glad things are back to ‘normal’ now. I’ll now have time to catch up with blogging and all those emails I haven’t answered… and then there’s all those books I haven’t read… and lots of ideas – what can I do with them? Work’s going to be busy, too, with our regular end-of-year planning. Never a dull moment!