That sounds like a lot of fun, actually, although I don’t envy you the pressure of having that many people count on your technology. Glad to hear that it went well, though.

Technically it was the Goldschmidt Geochemist’s Conference with 2000 geologists attending for 6 days. An annual international event that we got to host partly because one of our resident geologists complained about the technology at a prior conference. We were put on the spot, and we delivered with flying colors, BTW. I watched several sessions and learned new and interesting things about the earth … at least when I was able to understand the lingo.

In my experience “useless administrative types” certainly exist, but there are other administrative types that are truly essential to the running of the organization. If discerning taste in blogs is any indication… :-)

Why, pray tell, are you being overrun by hordes of geologists? I find them quite fascinating in small numbers, but hordes of academics of any description are often a worry.

As one of those useless adminstrative types I didnt have to do grades. We got a 3 day breather and are now being overrun by hordes of geologists. I shall be working through the weekend and dont get to look up until next Th. Wheeeee……..