Presentations

My brain is just totally not wanting to work right now. I'd have to plan my experiments for tomorrow since I'll be talking with my boss but I really can't. I've talking about the diffractometer to first year student all day. I had five groups come in and I did like a 20 minute presentation for each. The presentations themselves went quite well I think. Not perfectly but it was a really nice experience. Some groups even had some good questions and they seemed genuinely interested. I even got them to try out some little things by themselves like cutting crystals into pieces under a microscope. It doesn't sound all that interesting but it's more difficult and at the same time easier than one might think.

The only problem was that by the time I'd talked to two groups in a row and the third one came in I got totally confused about what I had told them already. See I was sort of going with the flow of information as it seemed to fit into the explanation and thus explained some things at different times. Then in the end I was like "have I told you about this already...". It would have been kind of embarrassing had I told them one thing many times. Luckily I had a lunch break after the first three groups so I could figure it out again. So all in all it went really nicely but I am now really tired. I just had coffee but that's not helping clear my head at all. Coffee never does clear my head so I don't know why I even think it could have helped. Taking a nap would do it. Perhaps I will just leave work early to clear my head before going climbing today.

But that's it for now. Weekend is not far off anymore. I am so waiting for it. Should be fun and interesting. Seeing friends and all. Getting more sleep. I also have to go bicycle shopping.