Tonight, I write from not my bed and not my home because I'm a'traveling! I'm down at my alma mater, presenting at an academic conference and spending a little time with a few of my peeps in the area. I gave my paper tonight about revision strategies--I thought it went pretty well and is definitely a project that I could develop more. (Best of all, I got in an academic spat with one of the other folks on the panel, but more about that later).
I was a little worried about my ability to maintain my unprocessed eating ways, but I packed acceptable foodstuffs from home, and I ran by the grocery store to pick up veggies and yogurt, whipping up a quick salad for dinner with avocado, butternut squash, carrots, and Greek yogurt. Pretty delicious and so very easy! After my quick bite, I headed to a mixer, where I drank a little red wine but shunned the various snacks (which were all extremely processed). I only kind of wanted it, so points for me!
Okay, back to the academic spat. I probably shouldn't go into too much detail, but I felt that one of the presenters gave a talk based on bad scholarship. I didn't really want to confront the presenter about it, but when others seemed to not see the major flaw, I had to say something. The assumptions and the claims were so baseless and completely drawn from very little data that I am flabbergasted that this person even functions in academia and is listened to. Given that the individual rolled eyes during my talk and made snide comments about the work I'm doing in my science writing class, I took a bit of pleasure in pointing out the flaws. In fact, I probably would have kept going except that the moderator diverted the attention to me, where the presenter than sulked off. I look forward to seeing this person at future conferences and continuing to publicly point out the flaws in the so-called research. (The person actually cited Google as a source. Seriously?)
Anyway, off to bed--I have another paper to read in the morning!
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