After checking lots of sites and local airplane ticket dealers, I finally booked my flight with cheaptickets. Here's the itinerary:
Leave Boston Thursday evening, Dec 29.
Arrive Gold Coast Coolangatta 10:40AM Saturday Dec 31st (after traveling 28 hours)

Spend 3 weeks in Byron Bay.

Leave Gold Coast Coolangatta 11:25AM Sunday Jan 22nd 11:25AM ( Read more... )

The snow is coming down so thick that when I look out the window I can't even see the ground. I can see the other wing of the building on my level, but where the building ends is greyed out. The snow outside my window is all flowing diagonally upwards. I didn't know snow storms could come with so much thunder and lightning! It's strange hearing ( Read more... )

I think Wikipedia.org is just the bee's knees. You really should become a contributor. It's not hard...it really takes less than 20 seconds. Then whenever you see an incomplete article or typo you can correct it! It's amazing! And if you're really inspired, you can write whole new articles! My contribution page.

I'm in Indiana, PA visiting Danielle's parents. It's been snowing furiously ever since we arrived. I hope we'll get to see Matt (Ruuudy!) in Pittsburgh. I love all the super scrumptious food and the free range organic bird. It's so nice not to have to work and to just take a break.

I'm finally getting over this yechhy cold. I've been coughing up lungs left and right for 13 days. I think I'll bike to work tomorrow. Work has gotten a little slow, so I asked Marlene if there's more I can do. She suggested I work on the old faces/words study. I'm kind of hesitant, because this is the study that made the RA before me quit. ( Read more... )

I’ve been hung down by a really bad cold since Thursday. Headaches, stuffy nose, the works. At its peak was our Halloween blowout party at my house. We put up cobwebs, streamers, did pumpkin carving, played set and anagrabble, made punch with ice hands, and had dry ice bubbling around. It was rocking till 4AM. I’m sure our neighbors loved us, ( Read more... )

I’m loving my job, but something strange dawned on me the other day. Almost everyone I’ve met through work are women! Here’s the list: Marlene (my PI), Diane (my boss), Mary and this other woman (secretaries), Rose (BU Personnel), three BU people who trained me, three women my age who work in the memory lab down the hall, their PI, three more ( Read more... )

Man, I feel like I have absolutely no time! I'm already so bad at organizing my time that I can't get anything I want done. I'm barely able to scrape together food, much less excercise, calling friends and family, making plans for fun stuff, or even stuff like clipping my nails and trimming my beard. I think part of it is that I spend so much ( Read more... )

It has been one week exactly since my crash. My wounds are finally starting to show thin, pink sensitive skin in places around the edges. It's interesting--the ones I kept slathered in antibiotic ointment and bandages are a LOT further along than the ones I ignored. I thought they were relatively minor, but they have big ugly scabs compared to ( Read more... )

I was biking from the VA hospital in JP to the MGH scan site in Charleston (about 5 miles away) and I hit a pothole. My front wheel dislodged from the fork and I went over the handlebars and skidded to a stop on what was left of my helmet. Really, it's amazing that I survived without any major injuries! I didn't even lose consciousness! The guy ( Read more... )