My talk at Rutgers was boring. I hate being boring, esp. the kind of boring where I feel like I am inflicting neurologic pain on people who were polite enough to invite me to speak and presumably did so in the belief that I would not so injuriously dull. Somehow I convince myself that if only my graphs are aesthetically pleasant enough it will take the edge off boring. Unsurprising to anyone but my pre-talk-frenetic-graph-making-delusional-self, this is not the case.
My sister is visiting this weekend. She'll be here any minute. So I'll be doing various tourist-y things, amidst having to catch up on various things from my time spent traveling.
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I hate that feeling. Happens to me all the time. But hey, maybe they weren't as bored as you thought they were. Sometimes people look bored when they're just thinking.
I doubt that you were boring. Compared to what? Certainly not to your writing class, where things probably got quite hilarious.
Have a great time showing your sister around and off. And start to enjoy the budding spring, Dude.
I hate those moments when I can tell my students are just *hating* a lecture I'm giving. It's painful to me to make other people bored. I don't know what to do about it. I tend to get really stressed and fairly often will freak out and just end class early.
This may just teach them that they should act bored, though.
That being said, I have a hard time imaginging you ever being boring.
So given the title of this post, if I poke you in the stomach the next time I see you, you'll laugh, right? And not, like, punch me or anything?
More precisely, I'll laugh and then proceed to provide a tedious and only partly intelligible explanation of a brightly-colored graph.
Ang/Gwen/Anon: I appreciate the vote of confidence, but I know when I'm boring. Oh, only too well. I am enjoying it being spring though, and I otherwise had a great trip to Rutgers.
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