what are you doing your presentation on? also i am in the exact same boat as you right now i have a catapult for physics i should 100% be working on and testing right now but i honestly cannot bring myself to get out of bed and do it :/
I don’t wanna specify because it’s advertised publicly and I’m paranoid about linking my fannish and professional personas, sorry!
But honestly being a psychologist is kind of like... grad school is ACTUALLY a good preparation for this, because my boss will call me up like “X organization just had someone die, can you go there for an hour on Tuesday and talk about grief” or “Y school has a bullying issue, please go to their staff meeting next week and talk” and I will have to sit down and like... speed-research on the topic to make sure I’m on top of all the literature, pull together a thesis and points, work it into a presentation, and then slap on some makeup and go.
I’ve only just started this job so when I’m more established I’ll have a series of canned talks I can just pull out on no notice because the background work is already done, but right now I’m building up a clientele so that includes doing any public speaking anybody wants of me, in hopes that someone in my audience is like, “She certainly is a smart and well-informed person, I should go see her as a therapist!”
My question for you: Do you get to fire the catapult at anyone? I’m used to medieval re-enactment where the siege weapons are used for armored combat, and I feel like this would be a significant factor in just how much fun the catapult is. And if it’s just a physics catapult, do you want to find volunteers to get fired at? There are more likely to be some out there than you think.