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I am off to training this morning. Hooray for professional development.

I'm spending all day at a workshop on basic research skills, which hopefully will up my cred at work in terms of "Yes he really does want to be a researcher". It may need a bit of that lately. In terms of my professional life, 2013 has been a bit of a wash so far.

I'm guessing, like usual, the workshop will be a combination of "Things I already knew" and "Things that are far beyond my current skill level". There doesn't seem to be much middle ground with me. I begin to wonder how the hell I learned anything in school. Maybe I'm getting dumber. :D In some ways that would be a relief, though I don't actually wish for it. Still, there's no denying if I'd used more points on charisma and less on intelligence I might be happier in life.

But I do get to see my colleagues present on a project they've been working on, so that'll be nice, and they feed us lunch. Five bucks says the lunch options are grilled chicken sandwiches, deli chicken sandwiches, and vegetarian...

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I HAVE BEEN TRAINED.

About half of it was useful, which is more than usual, to be honest. And during the parts I already knew, I could surf tumblr on my phone. I don't get a lot of depth out of Tumblr but I have to admit for immediate shiny distractions it's kind of hard to beat.

I did LOL at the intro-to-profiles, which I didn't need but which did include using Bruce Wayne as an example. I suppressed the urge to point out that they left Damian Wayne off the "family members" portion. I thought possibly they did it because he's supposedly dead and I didn't want to get into the whole "living in denial, he's not dead, he's at summer camp" thing I've got going.

I had a colleague presenting, and I feel as though I may need to send him a link to my Presentations For Introverts post from a while ago. He talked SO FAST. I mean I do that too, talk fast when I'm nervous, but I don't think I'm actually capable of talking as fast as he did.

And then class was over and I got Wow Bao for dinner, yay. Though I'm going to have to wait a while to eat my delicious steamed bbq-pork-buns, since I ate lunch and I'm not accustomed to eating lunch. They did have roast beef sandwiches, but that sandwich Did Not Agree with me.

At least I'm home now, so I can process all the stuff I learned and also take a nap.

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Roasted brussel sprouts with garlic and basalmic vinegar.

Let us not speak of this foul dish again.