Complacency, et al.

Over the past two decades, I've submitted proposals for and presented about a dozen sessions at various ATA conferences. The last one I did, in Boston in 2011, was held in a fairly large room, involved a standing-room-only crowd, and garnered quite a few nice comments from attendees who filled out session evaluations.

And up until today, I've never had a proposal rejected.

I've gotta say, it smarts a little (although I think the actual source of that smarting is the form-letter rejection).

On the plus side—see, I'm already looking at the plus side!—it's just one more item off my to-do list.

Onward!

Cheers...

Almost there...

I got through most of the despeckle on the no-longer-long-deadline job, and if Providence be willing and the creek doesn't rise, I ought to be able to send it off to my client tomorrow morning.

Correction... I better be able to send it off, because I've got quite a backlog for the weekend and the beginning of next week.

Natalie and Kyle made it to Calgary today, concluding a road trip that started near Sebastopol, California and took them here to Houston, up to Colorado (to visit Drew and his family), and finally up through Utah, Idaho, and Montana into Canada.

I've hardly done anything today but work (although there was a trip to the post office, where I learned there is now a "forever" stamp for international postage, among other things), so I better get some rest.

Cheers...