Monthly Archives: November 2010

Today has just been a really good day. I don’t think that it’s been any one thing in particular, but everything has just interfered constructively today, to end up with a big smile on my face. So, let’s see. My … Continue reading →

Apparently, is available on WordPress! 1. Wonderful!

Egads, I’m late! Ah well. Only by 12 hours or so! Yesterday, after cleaning her apartment satisfactorily, Ifni and I went for a walk around Princeton, wandering around the campus a fair bit, and a little ways through the town. … Continue reading →

We slept in today, getting up well past midday. After breakfast, we traipsed over to the IAS (Institute of Advanced Studies) so that Ifni could show me where she worked. We spent a while walking through the woods of the … Continue reading →

Today was Black Friday. If you say those words in Australia, you’ll conjure up mental images of bushfires. In America though, people get $$ signs in their eyes – the day after Thanksgiving, most stores have big sales, and a … Continue reading →

Today is the American Thanksgiving, and I’m spending it with Ifni in Princeton. We started the day with a lovely sleep in, but I managed to wake up to catch the last few snowflakes falling before it turned to rain. … Continue reading →

Today, I drove for some large number of hours to get to Princeton. Traffic wasn’t too bad, despite it being Thanksgiving. I hit a pocket of heavy traffic about 20 miles out, but it didn’t last too long. Only one … Continue reading →

Hmm, I just realised that there is no timestamp on my posts, apparently. Therefore, the post I made at 12:01 am last night is marked down for the next day, leading to the confusion on the calendar that I do … Continue reading →

I just found out that Frank Fenner, esteemed Australian scientist, has died. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/22/3073007.htm The hall of residence I lived in when I first came to Canberra in 2003 was called “Fenner Hall”, after Frank Fenner. I had the fortune to … Continue reading →