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".

It went well

 At least according to those of my friends who listened.

The programme is really packed, I have been on zoom for almost seven horu snow. I am currently listeing to an interesting presentation about "Self-Fashionign and Indigenous Identity in 18th century Cuzco portraits" But I am too tired to really listen, unfortunately. 

Tomorrow I will listen to presentations about a grave find of an early 17th century Danish man's costume, about the wardrobe of Katharina Jagellonica, 16th century queen of Sweden, about paper patterns, about Bronze Age Agean head dresses, and much more.

The conference continues until Sunday, by which time I will be both very educated, and very tired.