I think I'm beginning to like Microsoft PowerPoint. Once you spend quite some time digging into its functionalities, creating new slides becomes... well, not fun exactly, but not a chore, either, and leaves you feeling accomplished.

I have to prepare a presentation for the end-of-the-year meeting in our main office at the end of the week. We're each supposed to talk for 20-30 minutes and use PowerPoint to, well, 'make a point' (sorry! bad pun!), or rather: to enhance our presentation, not hijack it in a dizzying rush of flashing graphics. Or some such, anyway. Our department head wasn't exactly clear on the specifics, considering everyone who asked him for details came back with a different understanding of what he wanted us to do.

Until last Thursday, I'd managed to avoid learning more about PowerPoint than the fact that it existed (I would have sworn I had it deinstalled at my home computer, but thank God I hadn't), but now, unless I want to be depended on the help and goodwill (hah!) of my dear colleages one department over, I have to learn (and create) what I can on my own.

As I said, it's almost fun by now. Although I can hardly believe that I took work home with me, argh. And won't even get compensated for the hours I spend on this.

Pretty, pretty graphics. :::pets:::

:::sways dizzily:::

Oh, perhaps I should finally go to bed. What a marvelous idea.