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week ten
august 15 - august 19
Monday, August 15:
Busy busy busy! Today I updated my journals and website, then I
typed all my notes from the Baystate meeting last week. I tried to
organize everything I had from Baystate, but I don't know if that
will be possible, so I hope I can just clump it all together in text so
somebody can grep it. I made more LittleJIL changes to the Chemo
process, and made a backup in case I strategically delete it before my
presentation Thursday. I had so much work to do between finishing
up the diagrams and working on the final presentation that I had to come
in tonight in the wee hours. I brought my good friends Ben and
Jerry along for some company.
Tuesday, August 16:
Today I had a meeting with Lori at 10, and we talked about the
presentation I'll give on Thursday. I really have a lot of work to
do, but I'm sure I'll get it all done. Lori made me feel a lot
better about how I would present it: make it versatile enough so that
when I post it on my DMP site, everyone can see all the LittleJIL
diagrams if they want to, and skip over most of them in the actual LASER
presentation to talk mostly about process elicitation and LittleJIL
language issues. Sounds good! Now I gotta go do it.
Wednesday, August 17:
Today I had another meeting with Lori so I could show her the slides I
came up with. She liked them! Awesome. I have some
more things to do with them, and I need to add speaking notes, but it
looks I'll be in good shape for tomorrow. The presentation is in
the morning, and everybody's going out to lunch to celebrate my last day
tomorrow. Tomorrow! Can't believe it.
Thursday, August 18:
Last day at UMass!
Last minute corrections, panic attacks, and sweaty palms
out of the way! My final presentation is today!
The presentation went great.
I felt comfortable with the work that I had done, and my style of
presentation on PowerPoint went pretty well, even though I couldn't see
my fabulous speaking notes. Good thing I knew what I was talking
about. Some good discussions were brought up, and everybody seemed
engaged in the topic. A great success! I felt like I did a
pretty good job for the new girl. Not so new anymore, I guess.
We went out to lunch after the
presentation to Bertucci's. Yum! And then I went back to my
haunted house in Amherst, only to pack up and leave Massachusetts.
Adios amigos!
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