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Jan. 31st, 2007 10:33 amHermanus continues to be lovely, in a peaceful kind of way. Lots of looking at the mountains and the ocean and seas of wildflowers, which is a pleasant change from the stress of Nairobi.
I've spent a little time trying to catch up on writing about the WSF, and I've put up the introductory section now at my research blog. I'm halfway through the next thrilling installment now. Actually, I'm quite new at trying to write this kind of thing, so I suspect it'll take me a while to make it sound like anything more than a combination of very, very bad journalism and lecture notes. Still, I'm sure your tremendous love for me, dear readers, will help you look past all that and see the gems of brilliant insight hidden there. (???)
In other news, I can't remember if I told you that while I was in Kenya I got to feed a giraffe. Gosh! And it licked my face, too, which was kind of disgusting. Photos will be up as soon I get back to my usual online status. Not of the face-licking, though, since that didn't get caught on camera the first time and I decided once was quite enough. And yes, motherdear, I did wash my hands and face thoroughly afterwards, and there are no reported cases of giraffe-flu :)
Also, I got to pat a cheeta, and say hello to a baby leopard.
It's a good thing it's not whale season here in Hermanus - I'm sure just looking at them from the clifftops would be something of an anticlimax and I'd soon be demanding to have, at the very least, whaleback rides.
The coming year's looking interesting in terms of uni stuff. I'm fairly sure now that I want to go down to part time on my PhD, mostly to remove the stress I feel every time I even look at the damn thing. There are also all kinds of interesting opportunities to do other bits and pieces of writing and teaching around that I think would work well to keep up my excitement about life in academia. I'm doing a short course on university teaching that starts the day after I get back to Australia, and might be doing some teaching for a bridging course for indigenous students (the meeting for which will also probably be on the day I get back, or the day after). Interesting times, hopefully.
Also: I get back on the 14th, in the morning. The plan is that Kale will pick me up from the airport, and I'll have dinner with family in the evening.
I've spent a little time trying to catch up on writing about the WSF, and I've put up the introductory section now at my research blog. I'm halfway through the next thrilling installment now. Actually, I'm quite new at trying to write this kind of thing, so I suspect it'll take me a while to make it sound like anything more than a combination of very, very bad journalism and lecture notes. Still, I'm sure your tremendous love for me, dear readers, will help you look past all that and see the gems of brilliant insight hidden there. (???)
In other news, I can't remember if I told you that while I was in Kenya I got to feed a giraffe. Gosh! And it licked my face, too, which was kind of disgusting. Photos will be up as soon I get back to my usual online status. Not of the face-licking, though, since that didn't get caught on camera the first time and I decided once was quite enough. And yes, motherdear, I did wash my hands and face thoroughly afterwards, and there are no reported cases of giraffe-flu :)
Also, I got to pat a cheeta, and say hello to a baby leopard.
It's a good thing it's not whale season here in Hermanus - I'm sure just looking at them from the clifftops would be something of an anticlimax and I'd soon be demanding to have, at the very least, whaleback rides.
The coming year's looking interesting in terms of uni stuff. I'm fairly sure now that I want to go down to part time on my PhD, mostly to remove the stress I feel every time I even look at the damn thing. There are also all kinds of interesting opportunities to do other bits and pieces of writing and teaching around that I think would work well to keep up my excitement about life in academia. I'm doing a short course on university teaching that starts the day after I get back to Australia, and might be doing some teaching for a bridging course for indigenous students (the meeting for which will also probably be on the day I get back, or the day after). Interesting times, hopefully.
Also: I get back on the 14th, in the morning. The plan is that Kale will pick me up from the airport, and I'll have dinner with family in the evening.