This weekend has been peaceful and quiet with nothing to do! After my visit to Oxford we had our belated Australia Day party. It was great fun. Elisabeth came up from New York and we had some of my work friends over. We drank Fosters and Australian wine. Fosters is the only Australian beer here. We ate lamingtons, fairy bread, anzacs, curried egg and lettuce sandwiches. I had bought goodies from Australia and the UK including freddo frogs, chicos, twisties, burger rings, shortbread.... Then we went to the ice hockey.
San Francisco: Beach, Workshop Dinner, the bendy street.
The next week I was off to San Francisco again for a workshop on Systematic Errors in Computer Models. It wasn't an exciting way to spend my 29th birthday, but well worth the trip. I stayed an extra day and went sightseeing around San Fran. It was a gorgeous day, about 21 degrees C which was a lovely change from the freezing rain that was falling in New Haven.
So this weekend I am happy sitting at home and catching up on jobs around the house.
In April I have two more job interviews at Stanford and Johns Hopkins. I've also written a proposal for an ARC grant in Australia - so fingers crossed.
