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So, in preparation for Alabama, my advisor and I held a practice run of my talk with a couple of my classmates in attendance. Over the course of the session, it came out that the author of one of the major works I utilize, whom I QUOTE in my talk, and who is also a big name in the genus I work with, happens to also live in Alabama. Which says to me that the possibility that he's going to show up at the conference, and that he will actually come to listen to ME talk, to see what I'm doing with his genus, and could potentially pick my work apart (or could at least be insulted if I've misinterpreted his material), is much higher.

NO PRESSURE, REALLY.