After arriving in Seattle for the AIDS Vaccines Conference, I made my way to my hotel and spent a few hours working on my presentation. Of course, my computer decides it won’t cooperate at the critical moment when I’m trying to send my slides to the conference organizers. Had to call in Starr reinforcements to get things settled. All in all, my talk went pretty well, even though the power went out during my presentation, and the ‘poster discussion’ format essentially meant I was trying to present in the middle of a cocktail party. After sitting through that at so many meetings in Kampala, it didn’t really phase me. Had some good questions from the audience and some interest in the poster afterwards. It’s a relief to be done!

Gian’s in town for the meeting, too, so we walked around Seattle a bit in the afternoon and took in possibly the world’s most boring music museum. It’s a little strange to see the music you heard in high school catalogued and preserved in with such reverence. I’m really not old enough for that yet…