How'd it go?
May. 23rd, 2005 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringWell, the first thing I have got to say is that lecturers are a lot younger and hunkier than they were in my day. Dr Paul Magee could be a movie star! He had ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
silvanime and CoffeeBron in the palm of his hand when I walked in. A lovely guy, and he put me right at ease.
I set up in the lecture room and discovered that I'd forgotten to bring the books I'd carefully accumulated for the day, made release notes on, and set aside in a book bag all of their own. Blast!
So I didn't have anything to give away, except for an Oprah Book Club novel I'd brought along to register in the unlikely event that I ran out of things to say and needed to demonstrate how to do Bookcrossing.
Never mind. With two friendly Bookcrossers in the audience cheering me on, I felt no nerves. My presentation wasn't terribly polished, but I'll get better. As I expected, my enthusiasm carried me through, and I didn't need to read and mumble my way through my notes. It wasn't an award-winning performance by any means, and I guess after a while my delivery will flow more naturally, but for somebody who doesn't like speaking to more than a handful of people at once, well, I feel very good about it!
Afterwards, CoffeeBron led me by the hand to the refectory, where I collapsed in a grateful heap with a cappucino, and we talked of cats and books and Bookcrossers.
Thank you, Bron and Silvanime, for the morale-boosting support. And thank you Bron for taking control of the camera. Much appreciated, both of you!
silvanime and CoffeeBron in the palm of his hand when I walked in. A lovely guy, and he put me right at ease.I set up in the lecture room and discovered that I'd forgotten to bring the books I'd carefully accumulated for the day, made release notes on, and set aside in a book bag all of their own. Blast!
So I didn't have anything to give away, except for an Oprah Book Club novel I'd brought along to register in the unlikely event that I ran out of things to say and needed to demonstrate how to do Bookcrossing.
Never mind. With two friendly Bookcrossers in the audience cheering me on, I felt no nerves. My presentation wasn't terribly polished, but I'll get better. As I expected, my enthusiasm carried me through, and I didn't need to read and mumble my way through my notes. It wasn't an award-winning performance by any means, and I guess after a while my delivery will flow more naturally, but for somebody who doesn't like speaking to more than a handful of people at once, well, I feel very good about it!
Afterwards, CoffeeBron led me by the hand to the refectory, where I collapsed in a grateful heap with a cappucino, and we talked of cats and books and Bookcrossers.
Thank you, Bron and Silvanime, for the morale-boosting support. And thank you Bron for taking control of the camera. Much appreciated, both of you!
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Date: 2005-05-23 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-23 05:47 pm (UTC)YAY!!!
Date: 2005-05-23 08:17 pm (UTC)Wow, you look positively masterful up there - more than a match for the Movie Star Lecturers you mention.
:) WELL DONE!