Anyway... today was an interesting day. I think that I might have prepared too much as crazy as that sounds. Or maybe it was that I didn't prepare enough. Either way, the presentation did not go the way that I wanted it to.
I basically scripted all of the main points that I wanted to say on index cards but when I went to present, everything on the index cards where forgotten. This is because I was a nervous reck. I didn't expect to be nervous at all. I was actually pretty calm as I waited for my turn and I thought that because I am usually very comfortable with the STACies it would be easy to talk in front of them. Boy was I wrong. I don't know what happened but things came out of my mouth that I didn't even prepare. I wasn't even sure what I was saying. New ideas kept popping up. I originally wanted to talk about emotions and Pert's theory of mind-body connectivity but I ended up going on little rant after little rant. I'm not sure if people understood them. I'm glad that I came with notes though, because in between the babbling I would loose my train of thought and have to look down at my notes to pick up again. But whenever I looked down to remember where I was, my notes where behind what I was saying. This caused awkward pauses.
I honestly do not remember what I said other than, "opiate drugs", and "um". I need to learn to calm myself down and talk slower so that I know what's coming out of my mouth. From what I know today, I could have given a speech about clam chowder.
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