Conferences
May 23rd 2008 09:00
I was at a conference for all of two days this week, plus another short session on Thursday, by which time ‘the boss’ and I were peopled out and needed some space.
I’ve felt worn out for the last couple of days, not helped by the fact that we’ve had a rehearsal for the play I’m doing both last night and the previous night, and fairly intense work during the day.
What I don’t much enjoy about conferences is that I get worn out just listening to people talking to me. However entertaining and inventive they may be in the way they present the material (and the main speaker was fine in this regard), there comes a point when the brain just wants out, because it’s had enough.
The workshops each day were at 4 pm, which for me was pretty much a waste of time, as I was wasted myself.
Some people seem to thrive on conferences, the way golfers thrive on golf courses and clubs and golf balls and the like, or the way fishermen thrive on spending hours seemingly doing nothing while waiting for the big catch.
I don’t thrive on conferences, not even when the subject matter is of interest to me. I don’t remember any conference I’ve been to in the last decade or so that I’ve really enjoyed being at. Think I had too many conferences and seminars in my younger days, and I’m just conferenced out!
I’ve felt worn out for the last couple of days, not helped by the fact that we’ve had a rehearsal for the play I’m doing both last night and the previous night, and fairly intense work during the day.
What I don’t much enjoy about conferences is that I get worn out just listening to people talking to me. However entertaining and inventive they may be in the way they present the material (and the main speaker was fine in this regard), there comes a point when the brain just wants out, because it’s had enough.
The workshops each day were at 4 pm, which for me was pretty much a waste of time, as I was wasted myself.
Some people seem to thrive on conferences, the way golfers thrive on golf courses and clubs and golf balls and the like, or the way fishermen thrive on spending hours seemingly doing nothing while waiting for the big catch.
I don’t thrive on conferences, not even when the subject matter is of interest to me. I don’t remember any conference I’ve been to in the last decade or so that I’ve really enjoyed being at. Think I had too many conferences and seminars in my younger days, and I’m just conferenced out!
Knitting at a Conference, by Lollyknit. One of our friends used to knit during the sermons at church!
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