SO AND THE OTHER THING IS UM WHEN WE GET SOME CALLS SAY WE HAVE UH FOR INSTANCE THREE PEOPLE SUPERVISED BY BOB LADD THEN IT MIGHT BE THAT THEN WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO UH CONTACT BOB AND SAY BOB THESE THREE OF YOUR STUDENTS ARE GONNA BE TALKING UM PRESU PRESUMABLY YOU WANT TO BE THERE SO CAN YOU GIVE US A TIME THAT WOULD BE GOOD FOR YOU AND THEN WE CAN PUT THEM IN A BLOCK AT ONE TIME 'CAUSE HE SAYS YEAH OKAY THURSDAY AFTERNOON I'VE GOT COMPLETELY FREE SO I THINK WE DO NEED TO STICK EVERYONE TOGETHER UH PARTICULARLY IF THEY'VE GOT THE SAME SUPERVISOR AND IT'S ALSO GOOD IF TALKS ARE ON THE SAME TOPIC FOR A WHOLE MORNING OR A WHOLE AFTERNOON BECAUSE THEN PEOPLE WILL COME ALONG AND GO OH THIS MORNING IT'S ALL ON PHONOLOGY OR THIS MORNING IT'S ALL ON APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND THEN OKAY MM-HMM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE ANYWAY I THINK THAT'S SO FAR IT'S JUST A GENERAL STATEMENT OF INTEREST WHAT WE INTEND TO DO WHAT WE ACTUALLY GET TO DO WE'LL SEE LATER WHEN WE HAVE THE STUFF YEAH NOW WE NEED IF I'M GONNA SEND OUT THIS CALL UH WE NEED A DEADLINE FOR TITLES SO UM WHAT SHOULD WE SAY SOMETHING LIKE 'CAUSE WE NEED A DEADLINE FOR TITLES AND A DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SO LET'S SET THE THE LATEST DEADLINE THE THE UH THE THE SORT OF ABSTRACTS DEADLINE FIRST BECAUSE WE NEED TO HAVE A MEETING AND THAT'S GONNA BE WHEN ALL THE REAL WORK STARTS YEAH SO WHAT'S THE ABSOLUTE LATEST I WAS THINK I MEAN MAYBE THE END OF TWO WEEKS AHEAD OF END OF MARCH END OF MARCH MIGHT BE OKAY UH I'M GOING AWAY FOR TWO WEEKS ON THE FOURTH OF APRIL AND THEN I'M COMING BACK JUST IN TIME FOR THE CONFERENCE SO ANY ORGANISING AT LEAST STUFF WHERE I NEED TO BE WHERE WE NEED TO MEET PHYSICALLY HAS TO BE DONE BEFORE THAT YEAH AND I WILL BE AWAY PROBABLY UNTIL EASTER SO THIS ACTUALLY MEANS WE HAVE THE WEEK DIRECTLY AFTER EASTER BETWEEN MY COMING BACK AND YOU LEAVING I TELL YOU ONE THING UH IT'S STARTING ON THE WEDNESDAY AND THE FIRST DAY BACK IS TUESDAY I THINK I'M COMING BACK I'M TRYING TO GET THIS RIGHT HOPEFULLY I'LL BE BACK IN TIME THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING THE DAY BEFORE 'CAUSE I THINK I'M GONNA BE BACK MIGHT EVEN HAVE TO COME IN IN THE EVENING BUT THAT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD BUT WE MIGHT HAVE TO SET SOME THINGS UP LIKE MAYBE JUST GET THE CHAIRS ORGANISED OR WHATEVER WE MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE TO GO INTO THE ROOMS AND GET THINGS READY AND THERE'S GONNA BE OTHER THINGS LIKE GETTING THE TECHNOLOGY READY SO NOT ONLY IS THERE A PRESSURE TO HAVE UH TALKS THAT ARE ON A SIMILAR TOPIC TOGETHER BUT ALSO IF PEOPLE NEED THE SAME KIND OF COMPUTER SET UP IT'S GOOD TO HAVE THEM TOGETHER SO WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP CHANGING IT SO BECAUSE I TH I THINK IT WAS CEDRIC HAS ALREADY OFFERED TO DO WHATEVER WE NEED HIM TO DO BUT HE JUST NEEDS TO KNOW IN ADVANCE WHAT PEOPLE NEED SO THAT HE CAN BE THERE AND AND GET IT READY FOR THEM SO I THINK WHEN PEOPLE WELL HOPEFULLY MOST PEOPLE WILL D EITHER HAVE SOMETHING LIKE POWERPOINT OR THEY'LL JUST HAVE UH P. D. F. SLIDES OR SOMETHING HOPEFULLY NO ONE WILL HAVE ANYTHING TOO SPECIALIZED S SH Z YEAH IN SOME CASES WE MIGHT IF IT'S REALLY TOUGH WE MIGHT BE IN NEED OF A OF SOME SOUND SYSTEM TO PLAY RECORDINGS YEAH IT'S GOT A LOT IN THERE BUT I THINK IT DOES TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF I MEAN UH I THINK SOMETIMES MAYBE PEOPLE NEED TO BE IN LINUX RATHER THAN WINDOWS AND SO BOOTING IN AND OUT MM-HMM YEAH M IS SOMETIMES AN ISSUE I THINK UM BUT I THINK WHAT WE SHOULD SAY IS WHEN I PUT OUT THIS CALL I'LL PUT BOTH DEADLINES AND I THINK I'LL SAY THAT WHEN YOU SEND IN YOUR ABSTRACT YOU NEED TO MENTION THAT ANY TECHNOLOGY YOU INTEND TO USE SO THAT AT LEAST IF WE HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION YEAH SO UM SO DEADLINES UM OKAY SO LET'S THINK ABOUT THIS IF IF WE GAVE THEM A WHOLE MONTH OR JUST OVER A MONTH THEN THAT WOULD BE OKAY WOULDN'T IT BECAUSE WE'VE STILL GOT OH NO IT WOULDN'T BE OKAY AT ALL IF WE GAVE THEM THE WHOLE MONTH THAT'D GIVE US HARDLY ANY TIME SO IF WE GAVE THEM SAY TILL MID MARCH THAT WOULD BE GOOD SO GIVE THEM SOMETHING LIKE GIVE THEM SOMETHING LIKE TEN DAYS OR WHATEVER TO GET THE TITLE IN AND THEN GIVE THEM A WEEK ON TOP OF THAT TO GET THE ACTUAL ABSTRACT DONE AND THE ABSTRACT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE MUCH IT'S PROBABLY ONLY HALF A SIDE OF A. FOUR OR SOMETHING ISN'T IT JUST ENOUGH THAT WE CAN SEE WHETHER IT'S INTERESTING OR WHAT KIND OF AREA IT FITS INTO THAT'S ALL WE REALLY NEED MM-HMM UM SEE IDEAL IDEALLY I WOULD'VE LIKED TO HAVE GIVEN THEM A BIT LONGER BUT I THINK W NAH NO WAY ANYMORE OKAY SO UNFORTUNATELY I DON'T HAVE A CALENDAR UM SO LET'S JUST YOU'RE GONNA SEND THAT PAN PEN CRAZY NO IT'S I THINK IT'S OKAY WHEN YOU'RE NOT WRITING ON THERE UM SO SO UH THIRTY ONE OH NO IT'S TWENTY EIGHT THIS THIS MONTH ISN'T IT MM-HMM TWO THREE FOUR I COULD CREATE US ANOTHER CALENDAR MM-HMM AND THEN UM IF I SEND IT OUT TOMORROW WE'LL SAY SOMETHING LIKE THE EL OR MAYBE THE FOURTH WOULD BE GOOD SO GIVE THEM A W YEAH A WEEK FOR THE TITLE AND THEN THEY WOULD HAVE ABOUT TEN DAYS FROM THEN TO ACTUALLY GET THE ABSTRACT IN DOES THAT SOUND REASONABLE WHY NOT JUST GIVE THEM A WEEK TO DO THE ABSTRACT I MEAN I'M JUST THINKING ABOUT UM JUST PUT IT HERE YEAH THE ELEVENTH A BIT EARLIER SO I'M SAYING A WEEK FROM WHEN I SEND IT OUT SAY GET BACK WITH THE TITLE BY THE SEVENTH OR DO WE NEED TEN DAYS TO GO FROM THAT WOULD BE A WEEK ANYWAY BUT YOU CAN GIVE THEM TEN DAYS TO YOU CAN GIVE THEM TEN DAYS TO GET THE TITLE OR YOU CAN GIVE THEM IT DEPENDS WHICH WAY AROUND YOU WANNA DO IT SO WHAT'S GONNA TAKE THEM LONGER ACTUALLY TO DECIDE WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO AND SEND THE TITLE OR IS IT GONNA BE ON THE BASIS OF THE TITLE DO THEY WANT MORE TIME TO WRITE THE ABSTRACT UH F I THINK IF THEY'RE REALLY SERIOUS TO BE A BIT LATE WITH THE TITLE MIGHT NOT BE BAD BECAUSE IT WILL HELP THEM TO SO GIVE THEM THE SEVENTH YEAH OKAY SO SO MONDAY THE SEVENTH IS THE TITLE AND THIS PRESUMABLY WILL APPLY ACROSS THE BOARD MM-HMM YEP AND MONDAY THE FOURTEENTH FOR THE ABSTRACT