I got a job!!!

There is still official paperwork to be dealt with, but as of 1 November I will be a Researcher at the Luleå University of Technology (which is a 10 minute walk from my home). It will be a two-year contract, full time position, and has the option for an additional two years thereafter if all goes well. The focus of the position will be research, but there is a possibility of doing some teaching as well.

I will be doing 3 and 4D geochemical modeling of ore deposits. Since my background doesn't really include ore deposits (other than hearing many interesting talks on the subject while at the University of Tasmania, since so many folk there specialize in that field), I have borrowed a textbook on the subject, and a recent PhD thesis that did 2D cross sections of a local ore deposit--taking that sort of research into the third dimension and modeling the actual volumes involved of various components during the formation of the mineral deposits is the goal for this project. The ore deposits in this area are contained in metamorphic rocks (which is what my background is in), so I am hoping that there will be a reasonable amount of overlap between the things I already know and what I need to know for this project.

I started typing the above early this afternoon, but got interrupted, and interrupted again each time I went back to it till now. However, I am still just as bouncy and delighted at the news as I was when I got it.

I had fun at choir tonight, but I note that it is much harder for me to learn songs where my line is "dum, dum, dum..." than it is to learn one with actual words. In fact, I think no words vs Swedish words is a more difficult jump than Swedish words vs English words.

No progress today on that paper I am writing, but I did manage to book a B&B in Tromsø for next week when I am there for that workshop.