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ellarienOne of my posters for the meeting of two weeks from now is ... well, finished would be optimistic, but at least filled with content that I hope will satisfy my esteemed co-authors. Total editing time so far, 618 minutes, according to PowerPoint, but that's not counting the time to generate and polish the figures on the work computer. One more to go, and then I can concentrate on my talk, and putting together the CD with everybody's presentations, and making final edits to a journal paper that I would really like to have submitted before the meeting.
I must say, if anyone had told me when I signed up to be a physicist that I would spend so much of my time doing graphic design and typesetting, I might have been somewhat deterred. I failed art in the equivalent of Grade 8 -- the only exam subject I ever definitively failed at. Nevertheless, I seem to have become the artistic consultant around here. The current poster leaves something to be desired on the design front, but I don't have time to mess with fancy backgrounds this week. Last year, in the excitement of having a new computer and a new version of Office, I went crazy with transparent panels and shadows, but that just slows everything down, and means I have to make plain versions for the CD as well.
I must say, if anyone had told me when I signed up to be a physicist that I would spend so much of my time doing graphic design and typesetting, I might have been somewhat deterred. I failed art in the equivalent of Grade 8 -- the only exam subject I ever definitively failed at. Nevertheless, I seem to have become the artistic consultant around here. The current poster leaves something to be desired on the design front, but I don't have time to mess with fancy backgrounds this week. Last year, in the excitement of having a new computer and a new version of Office, I went crazy with transparent panels and shadows, but that just slows everything down, and means I have to make plain versions for the CD as well.
