I am alive
Dec. 13th, 2019 07:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukeI was at a three day conference for work and I am exhausted.
I rode with a coworker to it, which was nice because it was 3 1/2 hour drive. It was in New Hampshire in the middle of nowhere. I started the conference frustrated because when I booked my dog sitter a month ago, she told me that we were leaving monday night and staying until friday morning. As it turns out, we left tuesday morning at 9ish and got back thursday night. I also didn't find out that we were leaving tuesday until the week before and only got a time on monday morning, which got pushed later that evening.
So you know. Not great. I need plans to stay relatively solid on stuff like this.
The other issue is that all the hotels were booked and I wouldn't have a car. So like, big problem. Coworker said a month ago, oh we can find you a place to crash. And in fairness, she offered the couch in her room. But I didn't find that out until we were on our way. It actually was a small blessing in disguise because I would have booked a hotel room for two more night than I would have been there and probably lost money on it with cancellations. First night we were there, through a series of circumstances, someone who knew my coworker ended up in a two room suite at a different hotel and needed a ride there, so I got to stay with her and borrowed my coworkers car to take her there. The coworker stayed in the hotel that the conference was held in.
During the second day, I just called the hotel I stayed at and asked if they had a room available and they did. So someone must have cancelled or something. So I borrowed the car again and stayed there.
I had some food woes during the trip because if I'm stressed I don't want to eat, then I get nauseous from lack of food and so on.
The conference itself was great and I learned a lot of good stuff from the sessions. A lot of the speakers were really good at talking, which is awesome because sometimes they aren't. My dad made the drive up to attend it and he was really happy with what he learned as well. He had a longer drive, almost 6 hours and he drove down late the night before and left wednesday night to drive back. As it turns out, I know a lot more people at a farming conference than I thought I would.
One of my big conclusions is that I'm growing saffron because apparently it is pretty easy to do. Even just on a garden scale, you plant them and they will produce more bulbs but you leave them be for a couple of years before dividing and replanting. Figs are harder and so are kiwiberries but the farm is doing kiwiberries because they are delicious! So tasty! Not many farms grow them and they are so super good. Figs will require a greenhouse and moving in and out.
I got back last night a little after 9 and just collapsed into bed. I slept until 7 so you know, tired. I'd like to go back to sleep. I still have to pick Mara up at 9 and I'm sure she's going to be plenty freaked out by the whole thing.
Conferences are mostly exhausting because I spend a lot of time focused on taking notes during presentations and learning and interspersed are things like talking to people! Getting food! Walking around surrounded by people! Just. Very tiring. Anyway. I'm working from home today and probably not getting much done. And I'm laying around tomorrow and sunday too. Because tired.
I rode with a coworker to it, which was nice because it was 3 1/2 hour drive. It was in New Hampshire in the middle of nowhere. I started the conference frustrated because when I booked my dog sitter a month ago, she told me that we were leaving monday night and staying until friday morning. As it turns out, we left tuesday morning at 9ish and got back thursday night. I also didn't find out that we were leaving tuesday until the week before and only got a time on monday morning, which got pushed later that evening.
So you know. Not great. I need plans to stay relatively solid on stuff like this.
The other issue is that all the hotels were booked and I wouldn't have a car. So like, big problem. Coworker said a month ago, oh we can find you a place to crash. And in fairness, she offered the couch in her room. But I didn't find that out until we were on our way. It actually was a small blessing in disguise because I would have booked a hotel room for two more night than I would have been there and probably lost money on it with cancellations. First night we were there, through a series of circumstances, someone who knew my coworker ended up in a two room suite at a different hotel and needed a ride there, so I got to stay with her and borrowed my coworkers car to take her there. The coworker stayed in the hotel that the conference was held in.
During the second day, I just called the hotel I stayed at and asked if they had a room available and they did. So someone must have cancelled or something. So I borrowed the car again and stayed there.
I had some food woes during the trip because if I'm stressed I don't want to eat, then I get nauseous from lack of food and so on.
The conference itself was great and I learned a lot of good stuff from the sessions. A lot of the speakers were really good at talking, which is awesome because sometimes they aren't. My dad made the drive up to attend it and he was really happy with what he learned as well. He had a longer drive, almost 6 hours and he drove down late the night before and left wednesday night to drive back. As it turns out, I know a lot more people at a farming conference than I thought I would.
One of my big conclusions is that I'm growing saffron because apparently it is pretty easy to do. Even just on a garden scale, you plant them and they will produce more bulbs but you leave them be for a couple of years before dividing and replanting. Figs are harder and so are kiwiberries but the farm is doing kiwiberries because they are delicious! So tasty! Not many farms grow them and they are so super good. Figs will require a greenhouse and moving in and out.
I got back last night a little after 9 and just collapsed into bed. I slept until 7 so you know, tired. I'd like to go back to sleep. I still have to pick Mara up at 9 and I'm sure she's going to be plenty freaked out by the whole thing.
Conferences are mostly exhausting because I spend a lot of time focused on taking notes during presentations and learning and interspersed are things like talking to people! Getting food! Walking around surrounded by people! Just. Very tiring. Anyway. I'm working from home today and probably not getting much done. And I'm laying around tomorrow and sunday too. Because tired.
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Date: 2019-12-13 01:18 pm (UTC)May the tired pass quietly and in good order.
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Date: 2019-12-13 05:28 pm (UTC)I've got all weekend to rest up since the hockey game I was planning to go to got cancelled. Probably for the best.
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Date: 2019-12-14 01:48 am (UTC)That's doing very well for a three-day conference and I hope it's an entirely excellent rest.
(Tomorrow is this winter's first big pot of bacon potatoes. I am looking forward to it.)
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Date: 2019-12-14 01:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-15 01:57 am (UTC)Ought to get some onion next time. (There's a certain culinary purity to nothing but bacon, potatoes, and salt, but some onion or garlic wouldn't hurt.)