heat waves and brain deaths

spent a couple of hours this morning with one of the psych guy again... he gave me tons of excellent literature about attitudes and surveys and statistics. good good.

also spent 4 hours learning about excel, but i don't think i learned much because i was absolutely exhausted and bored. did 12 hours of excel training, not bad... makes it easier for me when i have to deal with monster quantities of data...

picked up a stats book from the library, got my little name tag and program for tomorrow-saturday's conference, copied the three chapters i already wrote (not finished writing, mind you): 90 pages altogether. llurda's book is excellent, too bad i don't have the time to read it much these days!

trying to write the stuff for my conference presentation on friday. i'll have to be at the conference all day tomorrow and friday because i'm a "local representative" and need to sit as session chair and in the publishers' exhibit room and take orders and make sure nothing disappears... so i won't have the time to do anything after tonight. but i can't do it! i am brain dead. i suck, i feel lazy, i am bored with this presentation, i have no inspiration, it's too hot and way too humid, the wind from the air conditionning gives me a headache.... can't even read other people's blogs or watch a movie, i'm just sick of being in front of a computer day and night! i should go knock at my neighbor's door and watch tv with him/her: hi, you don't know me but i'm your neighbor, would you mind if i watched tv with you?

god, what am i going to wear tomorrow? and friday????