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[merchimerch]

Dark chocolate twix bars are so yummy!

So apparently I won top prize at the conference. They apparnetly have a conference paper competition and the chairs of all the panels get together and give first, second, and third for Music, Art, and Theater and TV studies papers. I feel rather embarrassed about all of this - I really think they only gave it to me because I gave my paper in Uzbek, not Russian, and I had a snazzy powerpoint presentation which they asked me to create. At the final gathering they talked about me and my paper way too much and said that my paper was an example as the "global standard" for conference papers, which I'm not comfiortable with, then named my paper first of all the music papers and gave me a box of water glasses and a pitcher with purple flowers on it as a prize. It was all quite surreal, though I will put the water glasses to good use.

After the way my paper went over so stranglely yesterday this is just odd.

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[sps.livejournal.com]

Did you make a contribution to them? Yes you did. So you deserve it.

I have the same problem: I got an award for a demo I did for the AES a few years ago. What I thought I did was trivial, but I've since realised that they needed to see it done....

[merchimerch.livejournal.com]

yeah I hope it wasn't for the "tuition" they asked me to pay - which was within the realm of normal - I have paid $100/month to be affiliated with that institute since I started coming to Uzbekistan and they've never given me any fancy awards before.

Maybe, just maybe I did make some kind of contribution to their stuff, either by validating Uzbek music on a global level, by showing them some English langauge theory, or just by showing them how nifty powerpoint is.

[sps.livejournal.com]

Or maybe you provided them with a change of pace from a routine which they find almost as dysfunctional you did? (No offense intended - goodness knows our lab is pretty wonky, and at McGill we have rich connections to the rest of the world.)

Seriously - cross-fertilisation is an important thing, and presumably these awards have to go to someone - why not to someone different?

[mshathvri.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, darling. You should be proud.

[merchimerch.livejournal.com]

thanks :)

[thegodofthor.livejournal.com]

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