My week in Knoxville for the FGS Conference went by way too quickly. I wrote about its success a few days ago. When I return from a major genealogy conference or institute, I do a number of things in the first few days.
- Get extra sleep
- Laundry
- Send thank-yous to the planners, volunteers, etc.
- Pay bills
- Review my lecture PowerPoint and syllabus materials to change things that didn’t work as well as I had hoped and to add new details I learned at the conference or from someone at the event.
- File all the business cards, brochures, and fliers I collected. I do have a couple of business cards that do not contain my usual notation about the reason I was given the card!
- Put away all the pins and ribbons I wore at the conference — they go directly into the stack for the next large event.
- Enter my new book purchases into Library Thing
- Begin to catch up on email
- Begin to take care of notes I made, things I promised to send, and sometimes wonder what possessed me to say “yes” to some of those things.
- Wish I were back in the midst of the event excitement, education, and most of all the friendly atmosphere.
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