Hehehe – the classic WSIS moment this morning. Between jet lag and knowing that I hadn’t finished some of my PowerPoint presentations, I was wide awake at 2 AM this morning. Since Diane Trahan (Director, Netcorps Canada International) was nice enough to let me stay in her hotel room this week, I didn’t want to turn on the TV or lights in the room and wake her up. So I grabbed my laptop computer and the duvet off my bed and turned the hotel bathroom into my temporary office. I put my headphones on, cranked up some music, and ripped through preparing for the IS and SD presentation, the GKP Press Conference, and the Canadian youth presentation.

Somewhere around 5:30 AM, Diane woke up and came to use the bathroom. I don’t know who jumped higher when she opened the bathroom door. Then we both started laughing and couldn’t stop. She was threatening to take photos and put on captions like “The WSIS… anytime, anywhere.”. I’m quite glad she decided to go back to bed instead :-)

OK - call me Mother Hen for the day, whatever... But, this is just a quick reminder to all travelling to WSIS to try to get enough sleep and stay healthy over the next week and a half. It's flu season in the northern hemisphere and these kinds of Summits are notorious as illness trading grounds from around the world.

I know that everyone is stretched to the limit trying to tie up last minute details and presentations, but I would urge you not to succumb to the siren-call of pulling "all-nighters" to finish the work. It just opens you up to getting sick and being miserable in Geneva next week. And there's nothing worse than being sick, far from home in a youth hostel.

And while Nick is multi-talented as the WSIS Youth Caucus facilitator, I've never tried his chicken soup cooking abilities :-P

See you all soon...