senoritafish | (no subject)

I'm sitting in the lobby of the Best Western Inn by the Sea in La Jolla, paying to use an internet kiosk, which wasn't quite as expensive as I thought it would be. Nevertheless, I only have 14 minutes left unless I feed it again, which I reall can't afford to. I'm in La Jolla for 4 day of listening to people talk about sardines and their ecosystems, and climate regime shifts, and all manner of sardinopean things. I gave a talk yesterday on the Status of Coastal Pelagic finfish fisheries in California; I nearly imploded with nerves before I gave it, but everyone said I did a good job, and the animation I stuck in a couple of my slides was a big hit (I made some little clipart fish swim across before a photo faded in - whoopie snort).

Two more days here, and then home to make up to John that I missed his birthday (tomorrow). I wanted to post the morning before I left, but our phone wasn't working for some reason, and I got up to find some oily substance all over the laptop keyboard; I think one of our cats pissed on it. Great. It's probably shot now.

OK, I have seven minutes to check my friends list, but I don't think I'm going to be able to comment on anything, dammit!