Yay for learning
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cornerofmadnessFresh from the hot tub. Ah, that’s nice, sitting outside five stories up watching the sky and the skyscrapers with the cool mountain air blowing over you. Got in an hour swim too. Yay
The conference so far is a lot of fun. The president emeriti of the HAPS group sat at the tables for the first timers breakfast getting us orientated (got a baseball hat from that) During the very first seminar lecture, Mary Lou, a prof in her 60’s I would guess, sat down next to me and said she made it her little mission to find a first timer every year and help them to get to know everyone. One of the things they are having first timers do is go on a scavenger hunt for signatures of all the committee members so we get to know them and they get to know future committee people. She helped me meet half of them which was cool since I could turn in a filled in card and be entered into a drawing, top prize is a free ride into the conference next year in British Columbia.
The first two lectures were outstanding. The first on advances in neurosurgery and the second done by someone from necrosearch (how cool. I follow this group’s exploits). Her lecture was on how to do mammalian vs. human bone identification via form follows function. (They’re going a serial killer workshop to teach digestive enzymes that I REALLY want to do). Mary Lou took me out to lunch with more of her friends at Mad Greens and introduced me to the guy who wrote the text book I just purchased. That was cool.
One of the afternoon seminars were good. The other just wasn’t for me. I should have gone shopping. Ah well, I thought it was going to be something it wasn’t. I stalked the vendor for so many freebies I’m going to need a truck to bring them home. McGraw-Hill (who I use for my online stuff) is having a piñata tomorrow. I’m entered in that too. Top prize and iPad. Pearson sprung for two booze tickets at this evening’s mixer (ooo amaretto sours) and I got to meet all the committee members and bunches of other people. You know me, I’ll talk to anyone. Put my name in the hat for one of Pearson’s iPod giveaways.
I headed back to the 16th street mall alone and went to one of the two Buddhist/Hindu shops I saw earlier. I got a Bodhi bead & turquoise mala. It has oiled beads staining them a deep red-brown. I think it’s a beautiful mala. If I don’t spend too much money elsewhere I might be back to get a yak bone necklace and a few more Buddhist items. Went to the swing Thai and had ‘drunken noodles’
The only drawback is I’m slightly dizzy and nauseous. I’m hoping I’m not coming down with a stomach bug. I think more that it’s my gastric paresis combined with asthma. I haven’t been able to finish a meal yet today. Got a fridge full of leftovers. Rather hoping that no one wants me to eat lunch tomorrow. I could come here and snack and save money.
Tomorrow’s lectures don’t sound quite as interesting but I hope to be pleasantly surprised. I think I could be a student for life. I love learning.
The conference so far is a lot of fun. The president emeriti of the HAPS group sat at the tables for the first timers breakfast getting us orientated (got a baseball hat from that) During the very first seminar lecture, Mary Lou, a prof in her 60’s I would guess, sat down next to me and said she made it her little mission to find a first timer every year and help them to get to know everyone. One of the things they are having first timers do is go on a scavenger hunt for signatures of all the committee members so we get to know them and they get to know future committee people. She helped me meet half of them which was cool since I could turn in a filled in card and be entered into a drawing, top prize is a free ride into the conference next year in British Columbia.
The first two lectures were outstanding. The first on advances in neurosurgery and the second done by someone from necrosearch (how cool. I follow this group’s exploits). Her lecture was on how to do mammalian vs. human bone identification via form follows function. (They’re going a serial killer workshop to teach digestive enzymes that I REALLY want to do). Mary Lou took me out to lunch with more of her friends at Mad Greens and introduced me to the guy who wrote the text book I just purchased. That was cool.
One of the afternoon seminars were good. The other just wasn’t for me. I should have gone shopping. Ah well, I thought it was going to be something it wasn’t. I stalked the vendor for so many freebies I’m going to need a truck to bring them home. McGraw-Hill (who I use for my online stuff) is having a piñata tomorrow. I’m entered in that too. Top prize and iPad. Pearson sprung for two booze tickets at this evening’s mixer (ooo amaretto sours) and I got to meet all the committee members and bunches of other people. You know me, I’ll talk to anyone. Put my name in the hat for one of Pearson’s iPod giveaways.
I headed back to the 16th street mall alone and went to one of the two Buddhist/Hindu shops I saw earlier. I got a Bodhi bead & turquoise mala. It has oiled beads staining them a deep red-brown. I think it’s a beautiful mala. If I don’t spend too much money elsewhere I might be back to get a yak bone necklace and a few more Buddhist items. Went to the swing Thai and had ‘drunken noodles’
The only drawback is I’m slightly dizzy and nauseous. I’m hoping I’m not coming down with a stomach bug. I think more that it’s my gastric paresis combined with asthma. I haven’t been able to finish a meal yet today. Got a fridge full of leftovers. Rather hoping that no one wants me to eat lunch tomorrow. I could come here and snack and save money.
Tomorrow’s lectures don’t sound quite as interesting but I hope to be pleasantly surprised. I think I could be a student for life. I love learning.
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Date: 2010-05-31 11:24 am (UTC)And clicks :)
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Date: 2010-06-01 03:40 am (UTC)body is better today. I really think being 15 floors up with this thin air is my problem
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Date: 2010-06-01 02:47 am (UTC)Ummmm...question. What are drunken noodles? I've never heard of them before!
*nodding* I could be a student for life as well, love to learn! My mother always told us girls to "Never stop learning, when you stop you might as well be dead."
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Date: 2010-06-01 03:31 am (UTC)the drunken noodles had a sake based sauce
Learning was always big with my family