off into the sky

i had a wonderful day today - i worked from home all morning, working on the poster that i won't have to have done until May or so ... but i'm realizing that my predecessor was not exaggerating when he said sometimes you have to *look* for work. it's a bit cyclic, with all the work coming at once and not much happening between, so i'm trying to frontload the rest of my time with POC by getting done everything i can right now.
I am using Adobe Illustrator to make the poster, and it is so much fun. my predecessor did his poster in PowerPoint, which is the way that most colleges teach kids to make their nice glossy scientific posters, because it's hard to mess up. it is also hard to be unique, though. scientists don't worry so much about that, and don't tend to want to spend a lot of time learning complex graphics programs. i guess i'm not all scientist - but we knew that. this poster is much more arty than the past posters ... i'm not sure if my boss will hate it or not. i decided that there was no real reason that it had to be formatted as if it were the poster for a scientific paper or talk, as most of the people who see it are laypeople. so i am going for pizazz instead. trying to be chic and sophisticated instead of precise and wordy.

i am leaving in 10 minutes for the airport. i think i am being unnecessarily nervous. i cannot think of what i could be forgetting to do or bring. i might just go early just so i can't sit here being nervous any more.