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| # Posted 2008-07-25 04:36:26 | |
| Terry: | Almost made me want to go to ISMB.
Maybe I can count reading your AP log today as "work". |
| # Posted 2008-07-25 05:15:09 | |
| barb: | :-)
I spent some time, as I always seem to at these conferences, feeling depressed. I don't like that feeling. It got me thinking how people might easily take to drinking to make it go away, or being really crabby with people around them, or watch a lot of TV. I think it has to do with my feelings of insecurity about not being academically proper in my field. (i.e., doing nice work and getting it published) |
| # Posted 2008-07-25 07:04:33 | |
| peggyd: | Yeah, I really didn't understand any of it. |
| # Posted 2008-07-27 05:24:22 | |
| Terry: | Maybe we can go to a conference together some time and support each other in trying not to get depressed.
I wonder what percentage of other attendees have the same trouble. I bet some people go and just have the time of their lives, like we do when we go to an orienteering event. |
| # Posted 2008-07-27 07:09:59 | |
| Yukon King: | heh, when I went to those things (back in the day), I'd get all hyper & over-stimulated by all the new poop, collecting new methodologies & chattering til all hours to squeeze more scrumptious data, preliminary results, & wild suppositions from people... and then debriefing back at the lab to everyone who didn't attend, & planning out new strategies & collaborations. it was actually a bit physiologically disturbing now I think about it, it was like way, way...way too much coffee... of course, that was just straight-ahead MB, not informatic-type stuff, that is way more scarey. gah. |
| # Posted 2008-07-27 07:48:56 | |
| barb: | :-) |
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