Day conference went well. I was last up this time instead of first. And my colleague, S, who is not known for such effusiveness - especially where it's not required - thought it the best presentation of the lot. Which was a huge relief as the first one had rather intimidated me by being very researchy and not at all what I had in my bag if that's what they were expecting.

The road trip went well enough as well with a spare battery for my laptop meaning I had power for as long as I could be bothered to work and no major hold ups which was surprising. I even found a taker for my poster so I didn't have to carry *that* home.

Oh, and one oddity. Turned out that I was speaking *after* another poster award winner from the conference a couple of us took the e-book poster to and won the judge's choice award. As she was introduced as one of the winners, I assumed at the time she'd won the 'people's choice' award and made some joke about it. But looking it up afterwards discovered she'd actually been the runner up to us! Probably a good job I didn't know that at the time.