I’ve been back in Australia since Saturday. Already missing the old country terribly.
I had a fantastic trip, and will organize some photos and put them on Flickr. Many thanks are due to Jenny for putting up with me, and I can heartily recommend the blackberries that grow behind her house (modesty forbids describing the crumble I made with them). We came up with some plans for LabLit (I’m now the ‘Fiction and Poetry Editor’. Go me!), and we might soon be hassling some of you in regard to an exciting new initiative.
The Dean has a copy of my report on Science Blogging London 2008, and over the next couple of days I’ll make a public version available here and at my other place.
In the meantime, you can amuse yourselves by checking out the talk I gave at the MRC-LMB two weeks ago. There’s also some notes I made for the Open Science workshop hosted by the inestimable Cameron Neylon.
Now, to discover exactly what my young apprentice has been up to in my absence. She has acquired a padawan of her own, and I sense a disturbance in the Force…
I love visiting the UK, but don’t miss it when I get back home (home now being Vancouver). I miss my British friends and family, sure, but after a couple of weeks away I am desperate to get back to the ocean and mountains. Landing at Vancouver airport is great; as soon as I see the North Shore mountains and Georgia Strait I get a wonderful sense of “ahhh, home again”.
Resistance is futile; I have been assimilated. Give it another year or two and you might go the same way!
If that happens, you have my permission to tie me to a coolibah tree and boil my billabong.