Long day, with babbling.

I spent most of today scrambling to get our poster presentations together for the 2002 International Meeting of the Institute of Human Virology. Two trips to art supply shops, four 26x44" pieces of medium-green posterboard, one horrified discovery that it would not be possible to cut the posterboard, three frantic adhesive searches, twelve informative and carefully color-coordinated graphs (because if beige is associated with lower risk on graph 1, it should still be associated with lower risk on graph 11, or people will get confused), twenty-nine powerpoint slides nicely coordinated with the graphs and the posterboard, four trips to the color laser printer on the fifth floor, three fingers stuck together with a borrowed gluestick because I left the spray fixative at home, forty copies of a handout for each poster in case anyone wants to take my deathless prose home, ten p-values, eight of them under .05, and innumerable petty wording arguments with my boss. (I can't believe that I'm not allowed to say "unsafe" or "unprotected" in a presentation about condom use.)
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