The Opera Populaire

I conquered a fear of public speaking today. Well, we were all conned into preparing a presentation some time back. The announcement had been met with horror, anger and at last, grumpy resignation from yours truly. I have never been blessed with the gift of the gab. Plus, a less-than-nice manner of handling by a certain individual about what I thought was a reasonable request made me pretty unhappy. But in the end, my request was granted after skilful persuasion.

So I came up with what, to a lousy presenter as myself, a stroke of genius. I crafted my presentation speech beforehand. Right down to cues on when to click for the next slide, when to point, etc. And the result was marvelous during the dry run. But it did not go as well on the actual presentation, due to my nervousness that I was just unable to control. But it's fine by me. It is over now, at least.