my circle

That's how I felt today strolling around in my science cat dress (from svaha) and cat sketchers. People LOVED my dress (me too). But I'm exhausted. This day was 10 days long. That said, it's a good first day of the conference. I found a product I'm in love with, a sheet with the systems printed on that you can lay over a dummy and get a real feel for the anatomy and it was cheap (especially sandwiched in between VR lab stuff that's 100K +)

I did have to take more breaks than usual (and very thankful I'm at the hotel. 10 years ago I would have stayed at a boutique hotel that made me happy and walk a few blocks. Now I want to be able to run to my room whenever I need to.

I had my presentation today. It was very interesting. Only 4 men came up to talk to me. Women on the other hand were all around me, thrilled by the topic (women doctors/women medical schools) and one came up with her poster for a different woman scientist that no one talks about and showed it to me on her phone. Another is a veteran telling me she's friends with the female thunderbird pilot who was just removed from the DOJs website thanks to Trump and how they're afraid they won't even be allowed to have their 50 anniversary of something women in the military (can't remember what) They understand the need to preserve this history at a time when it's actively being erased.

A younger woman stopped in (obviously a student) who was absolutely taken with the poster and my name (hers is one letter different but very different in pronounciation of the vowels). Later, an Armenian professor stopped in to tell me his daughter would love this and I asked if that was the young woman I was talking with. He was so excited I remembered her and then proceeded to tell me how his mother would have liked this presentation because she had wanted to be a doctor but back in the 50s wasn't allowed to go to school in Iraqi (because her father didn't want her to get her head turned by a non-Armenian)

I didn't get the foot traffic as some posters because it wasn't as applicable to teaching as others but I had women dragging over other women to see my work. That makes it worth it

The vendors were paying for cocktails tonight (I got an extra ticket from the imprinted sheet vendor because she liked me) and holy crap the hotel was milking it. My gin and tonics were literally just tumblers filled with gin and a whisper of tonic. I was buzzed by the time I got back up here and made bad doordash decisions. Okay not bad but average, so very very average. Disappointing. Hopefully tomorrow shall be better. I need to figure out who is open on Sundays because not all of them are.

Oh and I looked up what my cough medicine to see how it works and it's made from insect venom that numbs your lung's carina (the center of cough reflexes) and your throat. Well then. I didn't have bug venom on my bingo card

Forgot to mention yesterday i knocked yet another dexcom off early. Sigh. I knew it was getting loose so I brought another one but these are like 300$ each so if they keep falling off early it's going to be a problem.



Comm rec thursday. Here's two. a new Buffyverse one buffyverseficfinder and the sunshine_revival which is taking over for the old sunshine challenge