The Elusive Topic

“So what will your talk at Oxford be about?” I was asked and realized that, throughout the drama of getting funding, I actually forgot what my topic was.

After searching on every computer and hard drive in existence for the abstract and straining my brain to the utmost trying to remember at least the general area of the proposed talk, I decided that the only thing to do was to ask the conference organizers.

This prospect was so humiliating that the overpowering sense of embarrassment and guilt made me remember where a copy of the abstract was hiding.

2 thoughts on “The Elusive Topic

  1. It happens all the time. Yesterday I had to find one of my proposals on google to remember what I would have to talk about.

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