I'm With the Bears (2011)
“The Introduction to Marine Biology lecture I give to my freshmen every year is enough to rattle me, so you can imagine how I felt in the moments before my speech at the Eighteenth International Conference of Limnology and Oceanology in Salzburg this year. Fortunately I have developed a practice that has served me well in these moments. Fifteen minutes before I have to go on, I make a trip to the restroom, where I wash my hands and recite several passages from the paper I’m to deliver. Then I cl...ose my eyes and repeat to myself, like a mantra, three words: Calm Blue Ocean. Calm Blue Ocean. Calm Blue Ocean. When I open my eyes—well, I may still have the flutters but I’m as ready as I’m ever going to be.
So as Arnie Lundtfelt was coming to the end of his discussion of organochlorine contamination of the Bering Sea’s Steller sea lion pup population, I quietly exited the conference room and made my way to the head. I’ve always found the restrooms at Sheraton Hotels to be consistently clean, well-attended, and capacious; I have observed this to be true in Lyon, San Diego, Toronto, and even Hanoi, at the Third Annual Polycheate Conference, a few years back.MoreLess
So as Arnie Lundtfelt was coming to the end of his discussion of organochlorine contamination of the Bering Sea’s Steller sea lion pup population, I quietly exited the conference room and made my way to the head. I’ve always found the restrooms at Sheraton Hotels to be consistently clean, well-attended, and capacious; I have observed this to be true in Lyon, San Diego, Toronto, and even Hanoi, at the Third Annual Polycheate Conference, a few years back.MoreLess
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