After several frenzied rewriting and streamilining hours last night and this morning, R successfully completed his conference presentation today at 12:30 EDT. Wait - let me rephrase that. R completely and totally ROCKED his presentation. The room was almost full and I would guess that there were around 30 people attending the session. He says he was nervous but no one would have guessed! His delivery was completely smooth and the powerpoint perfectly complemented his points. He also achieved TWO huge spontaneous laughter moments! (This is quite a feat at an academic conference!) Everyone in the audience nodded along and several took notes throughout his 20 minutes. During the Q&A after all the panelists spoke, R calmly and skillfully fielded several questions as if he did this on a daily basis! The panel chair asked him to please submit a paper again next year...so I have a feeling we will be attending the conference again in 2008!
~K
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