I have a pretty final draft of my paper to give at the conference this weekend done. I want to try and add a few more things to it, but the problem is I’m pushing 16 double spaced pages as is and I only have twenty minutes. It takes me about 1 minute and 30 seconds to get through a page alone. I may have to cut some stuff, we’ll see. I’ll probably decide that the night before with a practice run, alone in my hotel room.

I decided I’m training it up to the conference, booked the ticket and everything. It may be an all day trip, but I can sleep, I can listen to music, I can play some handheld games or I can choose to read. I should chose to read and work on the dissertation honestly. I’ve been consumed with the conference paper the past week, not that I haven’t gotten tons of new ideas for the dissertation from it. It hasn’t been a total loss.

One thing I have yet to decide is if I will stay at the conference Saturday night. I present Saturday afternoon, the session ends about 4pm. I have a hotel room that night if I need it, or I can abandon my money and just train it home. Honestly I will probably make that decision based on how I feel. I love staying in hotels, but I’ll be mostly on my own in a place where I’d rather not be. I wouldn’t get home till probably 1am Sunday morning, but at least come Sunday I have the day to myself and not stuck on a train traveling all day.

I finally broke down and ordered a new laptop today, deciding to go with HP. Here is hoping nothing bad happens to this one till the new one arrives in about 2 weeks.

That’s about it for today. I’m about to go sit down and read some articles to see if there is anything else I can use in my paper, then I’m hitting the hay. I have a lot to do tomorrow.

Dustin