Presentations are the pits.

I do not enjoy giving them and sometimes I wish that they were not something that was ever invented.

I bet that the person who invented presentations is laughing all the way to the soul bank right now.

They are evil and evil.

They are also heartless and evil.

THOSE CRAFTY SWINDLERS!

Today I had to give a presentation and it needed a lot more work.

It did not help that I did most of the work on it last night, but sometimes these things happen.

There was a little more work on it this morning.

Two things did not help with said presentation: not enough sleep and coffee.

When I decided to go to sleep last night my mind would not stop racing and exploring thoughts. They were intense, abstract and weird.

It took a long time before my mind calmed down and I was allowed to get a little rest.

Of course I woke up really early and therefore was left feeling rather tired. Still feel tired as of this writing.

I got a coffee and then the panic began to try and creep its way into my heart.

Thankfully I’m good ant speaking.

Well, sometimes I am good at speaking.

Usually if I wing it I’m pretty good as somehow I end up sounding a lot more confident when I ramble than when I’m reading something akin to a script.

With this presentation I went in and did a partial improvisation of what I had to say. It certainly helped me calm down a little bit than had I just read off a script.

I’m pretty sure that I went over the allotted time but I had a lot of information to cram into what time I had, so I’m not too fussed.

The question bit was much easier because I was able to run with my thoughts. Suddenly I was less rigid because I was able to ramble on almost freely.

Almost.

Unfortunately I was not able to answer the questions however I wanted as they were constrained by the information that I was working from, but I was able to answer quite freely within that information.

Therefore rambling was almost out of control as I waffled on to answer some question with more information than required.

Well, it was actually two questions and a lot of me going on and on in some attempt to try and answer the questions.

I think I did a good job in answering, but only because I was more relaxed.

It was not a great presentation. I’d give it a six out of ten. Maybe.

Well, on the plus side it is over and I don’t have to worry about presenting for a few more weeks.

In the interim I must resolve to remain as brilliant and awesome as I possibly can whilst I try and find a happy medium between wearing pants and being some sort of naturally brilliant, hard working super groovy genius.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 07:20:33

And now my armpits can stop sweating profusely.

If only they would.