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   I need a crippled Chibi-Catherine icon...

Well, it's certainly looking busted. All black and blue and ouchies, but it's mostly stopped hurting. Oh, it aches when I put any weight on it, and it feels completely mongey most of the time, but at least it's not actually throbbing like it was last night and this morning.





I guess that's why they call me Catherine the shocker.

The rest of the conference went well, I had a lot of fun and talked to people about many things. It was mostly interesting (there's a certain speaker who is notoriously bad, but we were very short on speakers so in he went, but it did mean that everyone fell asleep in the first session after lunch today.

So that's one conference done, another one to go, and all I need to do now is figure out why my laptop has stopped responding to the charger. I plug it in, and instead of turning amber the light flashes amber and then goes green, and the percentage charge on the battery continues to go down. I'll jiggle the cable a bit when I'm done with the blog, and hope that it sets things right, but I really need to get this sorted before the other conference on monday. *sighs* At least I have three other batteries to last me a few days if it really is kablamo. Maybe I can rush over to the shops to get myself a macbook (although they don't accept student discounts anymore, so I think I'm screwedd in that regard too).

Anyway, I'm going to stop stressing now and go to bed. Maybe I'll even find the time to go to a doctor tomorrow.

Labels: conferences, iCatherine, pain, suck

   Now in pain...

I think I may have broken a toe. *sighs*

Last night after the conference dinner there was observing of the moon and jupiter through the patchy clouds (okay, they were less than patchy after a bit, hence the fact that we didn't try for anything else). Anna didn't make it to the observing, because her jet lag had hit and she was very, very tired.

The point of that digression is that when I got back to the room, it was dark and I didn't want to wake Anna with a light. So naturally I smashed my foot into a cupboard, and now many hours later it still hurts. My toe is swollen, and a little bit bruised. This is very unfun.

The good news is the talks are really interesting, and I'm having a lot of fun. Most of the speakers have embraced the theme of "tell us about your scientific process", which is great because they're all giving such different talks. It's lots of fun.

Labels: conferences, pain, sickly-Cat