A ten-year-old hugged me good night, this evening. It made me feel special. :c) It has been a while since I have been close enough to any ten-year-olds to be huggable.

This nicked from red_wyvern.
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Sittin' at a railway station,
Got a ticket for my destination.
    Hmmmm...mmmmmmm...
On a tour of one-night stands,
my suitcase and guitar in hand,
and every stop is neatly planned
For a poet and a one-man band...

I'm homeward bound. It's more than just a wish: I'm going to be in Florida in less than a week's time! I'm too tired to ( Read more... )

I moved to some new digs. They're pretty nice, but would be vastly better if there were more people around. The only other resident is studying for exams, and even the people who usually work here during the day are on holiday for the first couple weeks I'm here.

I have moved in to the Chaplaincy, a place on campus that tries to meet the ( Read more... )

I was discussing peanut butter with another American yesterday. She described it as comfort food. We were noting the dearth of European interest in peanut butter, the odd unique consistency of British peanut butter, and how remarkable it is that one can eat peanut butter and jelly for lunch (and sometimes dinner, too) for years and not really ( Read more... )

It is official: Academic all-nighters are more fun when there are still people in the lab at 10:00pm.

I just turned in a paper. It's a fair-sized paper. You could read it, if you wanted. Even better, you could tell me how to improve it before it's set in stone. :c) That is, if you feel like you have too much free time.

On Friday at 6:00 I set out on a ramble with a flask of tea as my only companion. Here is the route I followed. It was four and a half hours to travel 13 miles, including 20 minutes of wait at a pizzeria on the home stretch. I enjoy walking through the Scottish countryside. It always makes me feel better.
I met several people along the way. ( Read more... )

Today was the first day of the Algebraic Biology conference at RISC in Hagenberg. The talks on tap were quite a mix of biology and mathematics. This is, of course, what they were aiming for, but it is certainly different than anything I have ever seen. There was also a pretty even mix of 'published paper' presentations and 'tutorials', the former ( Read more... )

As alluded to in my previous post, I am in Linz, Austria. It is a lovely place, but between academics and forgetfullness I have not done much photographic documentation. However, there are a few snapshots I have put on Facebook. Enjoy.