I made a huge email-skimming mistake on Sunday morning. In reply to an email thread about something else, Sam asked (I thought) if I could talk about two of my research projects on Friday morning. I thought he was scheduling a skype meeting so I said sure. I was kind of confused why he wanted to talk about one of them since it's finished, but whatever.
Then on Monday afternoon he replied with excitement saying something about how awesome his students are this semester, and mentioned another skype meeting we had to schedule. I didn't understand why his students were relevant or why he was so excited, but whatever.
Then today I got an email telling me where his class is on Friday, bring my adapter, blah blah blah "...after your presentation."
OMG. I finally get it.
I accidentally agreed to GIVE A TALK about my research, not TALK [with him] about my research. For an hour. Oops.
I am just going to throw something together from a seminar I gave last year, ESA, and my committee meeting in December. I cannot afford to spend a lot of time on this, but I also think it would be crappy of me to back out. I've talked about and thought about this stuff enough that I can wing it for some undergrads.
I'm not allowing myself to work on this presentation until I get a chapter draft sent to my committee. Writing comes first.
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