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I’ll have you know that my presentation(s) today went fine, ~despite~ a noticeable dearth of wishers well. Dana, in fact, was the only person to wish me good luck. For shame!

I had a really good time presenting, despite the fact I certainly Did Not Wish to Wake this morning. I got done preparing my presentation at around 3am. I went to bed, tossing and turning, until at least 3:30 (the last time I remember seeing). I was awake again before 6am. In other words, I did all of my presenting on less than three hours sleep. Really, I suppose the coffee deserves most of the credit for pulling it off.

Despite the fact that I was awake by six, I still managed to fall behind this morning. I fell into my normal morning routine, which of late involves a lot of sipping of the coffee and nibbling of the fruit and reading of the email. At one point, I startled, glanced at the clock, and realized I had twenty minutes to shower, shave, brush my teeth, and dress in presentable presentation duds in order to catch my bus.

I was ~early~ to the bus stop by two minutes. I really don’t know how. I think I may have sent a new personal (personal) hygiene speed record.

Anyway, the presentation went well. I presented the same information in three sessions, so I had to vary it a little bit each time to keep myself interested, but it was a good time. Dr. Niday didn’t intimidate me much, which I’m blaming on the lack of sleep. After the sessions, during lunch, I was also part of a graduate student panel discussion why we’re at ISU and what admissions persons could do to attract more bright young stars like ourselves. I had one of the ladies present snap a picture of us on that panel, so we’ll see how that turned out later.

Now all I have to look forward to is work until 5pm, class until 6:30pm, and then racquetball at 8pm. I’m gonna be one tired little fella by the time this evening rolls around.

I’m already a tired little fella. Uht-oh…