Home.

I'm home from my little jaunt to San Francisco. The conference was fine but (as I suspected) all-consuming. And I actually had a nice time at the networking events. It was a smaller-scale conference so that helped.

All the speakers were supposed experts on their topic but what struck me was the variability in the presentation skills. I'm currently working on two new presentations (one I'm doing in March at a local professional society; the other I need to have finished by March 1 for final submission to a conference that isn't until June). I find it helpful to study other speakers - what makes a good presentation good and what makes a bad one fall so flat. There was the good, the bad, and the ugly in this conference.

Tonight I just want to be a vegetable in fuzzy socks and my warm, cozy hoodie.