Summer plans
After realizing that my last ten entries or so have ended in exclamation points (!!!), I figured I’d slow things down a bit with a brief discussion of my summer travel plans.
At the end of June I’ll be heading to Australia! (sorry…there’s really no way to announce a trip to Australia without involving exclamation points) I’ll be spending a few days up north in Cairns, seeing the Great Barrier Reef and visiting some of the surrounding rain forest, before heading down to Sydney for the main event: presenting a contributed talk at the “Galaxy Metabolism: Galaxy Evolution near and far” meeting.
Then, in mid-July, I’ll be flying to Chile, as I’m currently tentatively slated to observe at Magellan on July 16th and 17th, getting some follow-up observations for my thesis work. I’m very much looking forward to this observing run – Chile is always a beautiful place to visit, and Magellan was a joy to observe on last time. Hopefully last year’s wonderful experience will repeat itself and it’ll be another two days of excellent weather. (now excuse me while I go run and find some wood to knock on…)
The rest of the summer is shaping up to be quiet, or at least relatively so: I’m now officially in the fourth and final year of my PhD program, so this summer also marks the beginning of preparations for the fall job market!
