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frualeydis) wrote2021-06-07 08:39 am
frualeydis) wrote2021-06-07 08:39 am
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Nervous
Today I have my presentation at the Association of Dress Historians' online conference. Originally this should have been a regular conference, held outside the UK for the first time, in Gothenburg where I live, last August.
But you know, a pandemic happened.
I am not comfortable with giving online presentations. Not so much the presentations, but the technological stuff that can go wrong. For a normal conference you just have to be there when your session starts (well, a little before to put your PP-presentation into the computer), and then you do your presentation when you're told. This has so many more possible ways that it can go wrong.
Being exhausted also means that I have problems understanding instructions for new things, which stresses me.
But it is not until 3.30 UK time, and the conference itself starts at noon, so hopefully I will a) have a good working day (1,5 hours) in the morning, and then some time to get connected to the conference, before it is my turn.
So now I am off to the university to grade some tests while drinking lots of tea and listeing to this year's Eurovision winners, the Italian hard rock band "Måneskin".
But you know, a pandemic happened.
I am not comfortable with giving online presentations. Not so much the presentations, but the technological stuff that can go wrong. For a normal conference you just have to be there when your session starts (well, a little before to put your PP-presentation into the computer), and then you do your presentation when you're told. This has so many more possible ways that it can go wrong.
Being exhausted also means that I have problems understanding instructions for new things, which stresses me.
But it is not until 3.30 UK time, and the conference itself starts at noon, so hopefully I will a) have a good working day (1,5 hours) in the morning, and then some time to get connected to the conference, before it is my turn.
So now I am off to the university to grade some tests while drinking lots of tea and listeing to this year's Eurovision winners, the Italian hard rock band "Måneskin".