The GP Public Presentation went very well! It was a super long day, though. I had to leave at 9:15am, hung around till around 11:30 (put our poster up, had our class photo, went to mic checks), went home to eat, fell asleep so I missed the first two sessions, got back to campus 3 hours later (2:15pm to be there early to set the computer up at 2:45pm), had our presentation and Q&A, took some group shots (client contact and advisor with us), went to the last two sessions, had the poster session, left at almost 7pm, went to the Elephant Bar for our dinner with our client, got home from the Elephant Bar at 10:30pm. Phew. Long day. The thing I did? Brought my Skechers nice looking shoes so I wasn't in my heels the whole day. Oh my gosh my feet were killing me at times! Bren also saved me. If there is one thing Bren does well, it's receptions and snacks. They know to feed you and feed you often. LoL They had snacks and beverages available throughout the sessions. So I had some snack mix stuff at the last session and a Dr. Pepper till the reception. At the reception they had alcohol for free, water, meat platter, two types of hummus, some type of rice dish (really good!), breads, big flat crackers, cold veggies plate, and maybe something else. At any rate, that helped to tied me over till dinner.
The presentation itself went very well. Our room was only about half full, but it's what we expected since we were competing with the Aquapods group and knew everyone was going there (half of us even wanted to go!). We all answered a question at the Q&A. I got a dreaded policy question, which EVERYONE in the group immediately honed in on me as our mediator was asking the question (I didn't even bother looking at them because I knew it was for me). We are all super glad it's finished!
We will be presenting twice more and I feel like those are more intimidating since we'll be presenting at the BLM Sacramento Office and the Delta Tributaries Mercury Council Meeting. It's like presenting to our peers...We'll be presenting both on the same day too, so it'll be another long day. Sacramento in the morning, Davis in the afternoon, dinner with some people in the evening. Phew. BLM is going to try and find money to fund our trip (2-nights too!). That will be May 16-17 and we'll come back the 18th. I will probably miss all my classes that week. :P If there's one thing Bren is tolerant about, it's students attending conferences and doing things for GP. It's one thing I like about Bren.
Here are some random GP photos for the day: GP Photos
In other news...Watched Hereafter (Matt Damon). It's an odd little film that is semi-depressing. It has a semi-happy ending, but it's so low key that it kind of levels the movie to a somber ending rather than a true happy ending. Basically chronicles three different people and their issues with death. Damon's character is a "psychic," but he truly can communicate with the dead. Unfortunately, he can't touch someone's bare hand with his bare hand without flashing to someone in their life so he can't have any real meaningful relationship because of it and also his dates tend to be freaked out over his ability. This French lady has a near death experience (dies, sees shadows of people, etc, and comes back to life) and it ends up messing with her relationship and her career (until she gets published). A child loses his twin brother to an accident and tries to find a way to communicate with him (he was very dependent upon his older brother and his mother ends up going into rehab after his death). They end up all, in the end, meeting each other in London and helping each other in various ways. So...it's interesting. I don't know if I'd readily recommend it to most people unless you like the more somber type movie, but it was interesting and Clint Eastwood directed it and it's (I think) based off of a novella. Grade: B
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