This week we hosted a major conference with delegates from 30 countries (at least that's what the local newspaper reported in a small, one-column report with no photos!) which adds up to about 2,500 people trampling all over the place. I was kept busy with all sorts of tasks eg. ushering, organising fringe events, taking care of foreign visitors.
It was quite exciting but very exhausting. A visitor said that the event was very well organised but we told her that it's just that we managed to cover the hiccups well.
I didn't get to attend most of the presentation sessions as I was so busy, but did managed to watch a few keynote addresses. For most of them, I wasn't impressed by the content. Some were irrelevant to the local context, others were just rehasing old stuff that most people already know about, i.e. giving new terms to old ideas.
But the delivery was quite admirable. A few of them reminded me of motivational speakers (or slightly worse, star salespersons)
Anyway, by the end of it I was so tired that I was barely able to open my peepers. I guzzled coffee like water and still I felt stupid. So this weekend (which is unbearably hot, by the way, so that I'm always covered with a film of sweat) I'll try to chill a bit.
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