Manjula goes blogging...

A couple of years ago at a meeting in Kenya while working on documents in the wee hours of the morning, Angela and I discovered that we both have similar symptoms after a meeting/conference/Symposium is over and we return home to “normal” life -- we both get the temporary “blues.” After being constantly surrounded for a week or more by so many friends and people and passionate discussions and fun and laughter, the abrupt end of a meeting when everyone quickly disperses and we return home on our own is a little saddening. So we coined the term PMB (Post Meeting Blues) with variations such as PSB (Post Symposium Blues) or PCB (Post Conference Blues). I imagined we were the only people dreading the PSB after the Costa Rican Symposium, but surprisingly several people mentioned how the end of the Symposium left them with a lonely, empty, or “tout seul” feeling... And yet, once these temporary blues pass, what remains is renewed energy for another year of sea turtle work, new ideas and collaborations to follow up, and many more exciting explorations in sea turtle biology and conservation…