One of the things that upset me last week was finding out that the colloquium I've worked so hard on has been cancelled. I suppose the most upsetting thing was that I was not consulted in making the decision, which strikes me as a little strange seeing how I was the Colloquium Director. I'm also tremendously disappointed. Not only is all the effort I put in now down the drain with nothing to show for it, but a really cool event now isn't going to happen.
I am not entirely sure that this result was inevitable. We'd finally started turning a corner on getting some of the logistics together, and I had complete confidence in my ability to put together an event. (I've done things like this several times before.) On the other hand, the production of our journal was starting to get impacted, and it's possible that these resulting complications may have been too difficult to surmount.
Still, although it is nice to get my cycles back, I nevertheless think that this was something we could have pulled off - and would have been glad we did.