Travel to Brazil

Oye Ppl, Theres this conference in Rio De Janeiro called ICCV.
I have a paper in the conference but havent yet decided whether I should go to the conference or not.

Pros: BRAZIL
Half the trip is funded...meaning accomodation will probably be paid by my advisor..I still have to pay airfare tho :(
I saw videos of Iguazu falls on Youtube....Its just amazing.
I have looked up some amazing strenuous hikes in brazil...

Cons: I have taken tooooo many breaks from work this summer and as you all are aware of I am also just trying to get out of my low motivation rut.
No hikers from my lab going to the conference and definitely would like to have company on some of those more strenuous hikes in Brazil.
Airfare !!!
Abi is definitely not gonna come -- Ya. She is stupid and adamant :)


I have gotta make my mind up in the next couple of days to a week utmost. Lets see what I do.

Sounding Board

I never really understood the importance of a sounding board. It seems that it is quite important that I be able to express my ideas freely and without inhibition to some other living being--- no matter how trivial/unimportant and arcane these idea/thoughts are.

The absence of a sounding board essentially means that these thoughts and ideas remain within the confines of your mind. And being locked up within they run amok freely. Now imagine that these ideas were all small little green beings---much like the martians in movies. Now I am quite productive when it comes to useless and arcane ideas (atleast 30 a day). Now imagine all these green martians running around within the confines of my mind....all day long!!!


I need to let these guys out.......


Maybe soon someone will find a program that can be used to download these thoughts (green martians) on to a Flash drive and then I can let them run around within the flash drive and everyone is happy. But until then, I do need a sounding board :)

Motivation

PPL,

I need motivation.......
I need to sit less on my ass.....
and I need to start getting some work done....

But by now i am so far behind I dont know where to start....
I know we've all been there before....
But I cant seem to remember how I got out of it last time around...

Oye, ppl with better memory....
Drop me an email.