When I realized that the American Evaluation Association’s conference is only 19 days away:

When I checked the schedule and realized the sessions start at 7am:

When I’m already flooded with work before the conference:

When I still have to finish a few presentations before the conference:

When I thought, hey, it’s not so bad, because this is how I felt at my first evaluation conference:

When I remembered there would be be plenty of happy hours at the conference:

And when I remembered I’d get to see all my favorite evaluators in one place: