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I'm running a day behind on my journals now, and here's why:
Yesterday was the last day of our 8th RWOT. It was a very successful event.
I did my usual day-three cat-herding and got connected up with everyone so that we can push their papers toward completion following the event. Remarkably, I got everyone to even upload their in-process papers, which is usually a battle, but not this time. We had *23* papers uploaded in their partial or draft forms, and we have *25* expected to come out of this events. That's in comparison to 13 papers coming out of each of the previous two workshops, which seemed really big at the time, but now we doubled that (and with only about 50% increase in participants, suggesting that we did a great job of keeping group sizes smaller, which makes them more manageable and in our opinion more successful, but also has the side effect of increasing the number of papers).
Since I need to edit all of these, my work is really going to be cut off for me. I literally need to edit and publish an average of a paper a week for the next half-year!
My group didn't exactly finish our paper, but we did brainstorm the last and most forward-looking section, and we got everyone to commit to what they'd be doing post-event with deadlines for each of their contributions that will hopefully have the group handing the paper off to me as the editor on March 31st.
I'm still looking forward to how ours turns out.
After the workshop ended we had our final dinner scheduled for downtown Barcelona about two hours later. I've compromised that I go to the final dinner, but not the other two, as a balance between hanging out with folks and getting overly socialized.
I decided to walk out to the dinner, which give me a very nice hour and a half walk or so through a darkened Mountjüic. I got to see the spotlights up close and to see some nicely wooded sections of the mount on the other side of the art museum, and I eventually got to the restaurant just before dinner.
Dinner was fancy but a lot of it was richer than I like. I talked with some RWOT folks that I didn't know as well and some of them were *very* enthusiastic on their subjects of interest. Yep, I was overly socialized by the end.
I'd forgotten how long European dinners run. We arrived at 9.00, had our orders in by 9.30, but then only got a plate every twenty or thirty minutes. With appetizers, soup or salad, main course, and desert, it was 11.30 before we'd seen our full meals. (Which is weirdly long given the restaurant opened a 8.30 and closed at midnight.)
Anywho, I enjoyed getting to touch bases with everyone one last time on my way out, and thus RWOT8 ended.
The trains shut down at midnight on Sunday, and I didn't know exactly what that meant, but I got out to the cross-city line I was taking, and then transferred to the airport train that goes near where we are in Fira, and I exited down the street from my hotel a few minutes after midnight.
Damned late Barcelonan nights.
It was way too late to do anything but de-spaz so that I could sleep. I was able to lay down at 12.30 and only tossed and turned a bit before falling asleep.
Yesterday was the last day of our 8th RWOT. It was a very successful event.
I did my usual day-three cat-herding and got connected up with everyone so that we can push their papers toward completion following the event. Remarkably, I got everyone to even upload their in-process papers, which is usually a battle, but not this time. We had *23* papers uploaded in their partial or draft forms, and we have *25* expected to come out of this events. That's in comparison to 13 papers coming out of each of the previous two workshops, which seemed really big at the time, but now we doubled that (and with only about 50% increase in participants, suggesting that we did a great job of keeping group sizes smaller, which makes them more manageable and in our opinion more successful, but also has the side effect of increasing the number of papers).
Since I need to edit all of these, my work is really going to be cut off for me. I literally need to edit and publish an average of a paper a week for the next half-year!
My group didn't exactly finish our paper, but we did brainstorm the last and most forward-looking section, and we got everyone to commit to what they'd be doing post-event with deadlines for each of their contributions that will hopefully have the group handing the paper off to me as the editor on March 31st.
I'm still looking forward to how ours turns out.
After the workshop ended we had our final dinner scheduled for downtown Barcelona about two hours later. I've compromised that I go to the final dinner, but not the other two, as a balance between hanging out with folks and getting overly socialized.
I decided to walk out to the dinner, which give me a very nice hour and a half walk or so through a darkened Mountjüic. I got to see the spotlights up close and to see some nicely wooded sections of the mount on the other side of the art museum, and I eventually got to the restaurant just before dinner.
Dinner was fancy but a lot of it was richer than I like. I talked with some RWOT folks that I didn't know as well and some of them were *very* enthusiastic on their subjects of interest. Yep, I was overly socialized by the end.
I'd forgotten how long European dinners run. We arrived at 9.00, had our orders in by 9.30, but then only got a plate every twenty or thirty minutes. With appetizers, soup or salad, main course, and desert, it was 11.30 before we'd seen our full meals. (Which is weirdly long given the restaurant opened a 8.30 and closed at midnight.)
Anywho, I enjoyed getting to touch bases with everyone one last time on my way out, and thus RWOT8 ended.
The trains shut down at midnight on Sunday, and I didn't know exactly what that meant, but I got out to the cross-city line I was taking, and then transferred to the airport train that goes near where we are in Fira, and I exited down the street from my hotel a few minutes after midnight.
Damned late Barcelonan nights.
It was way too late to do anything but de-spaz so that I could sleep. I was able to lay down at 12.30 and only tossed and turned a bit before falling asleep.