Back to “normal?”

Hey! It’s me again. Hard to believe a week and two days have already gone by since the JALT conference, which you can read all about here at this little website I set up to preserve that experience. Here’s a bit on how it was like:

It was such an intense experience! From throwing up the day before, to having to redo many slides due to lack of Internet access (only to finally figure out how to connect a few hours before, thus having to frantically redo slides again at the last moment), to there being WAY more people attending than I had expected (and thus not having enough handouts), to the presence of experts whom I had featured in various slides… wow, it was all too much.

You’d think I’d be back into my normal routine again, right? Well, things are busier than ever! These conferences, I’ve realized, are all about generating new career opportunities. You mingle, go out for beers, chat during presentations, “do lunch”, and all of that creates these little openings and possibilities. It’s like an intensive weekend of gardening- you’re planting seeds all over the place. But after you do so, you have to water and cultivate those plants if you want anything good to come from them. That’s where I’m at now- working hard on following up various things. For example, I have the opportunity to get three publications out of the two presentations I did- but the catch is that the deadline for two of them is December 15th!!!! I’m also in the process of creating a video version of my Web 2.0 presentation, one that I’ll be posting shortly (I’m almost done).

All in all it’s a very busy, but very exciting time.

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