kareina

I seem to have finally caught up on both rest and my favourite form of "down time" (reading lj/FB, blogs, etc.) after my two back to back journeys (Australia to Europe, closely followed by driving the length of Sweden for a week of Medieval camping). It is not yet 09:30, but I have already done a full hour of something which counts as "uni work".

I am part of the Women in Science working group of the Marie Curie Fellows association. We have been putting together a booklet showcasing women scientists who have accepted mobility grants and moved to new countries as part of their science career, in hopes of providing positive role models for future women scientists who are considering applying for such grants. As one of the few native-English speakers in the group I put my hand up for the editing role, and have been enjoying doing the close reading of everyone's stories as a result. The booklet was coming along nicely before my double-trip, but my participation has been on hold for a couple of weeks as I traveled. I was relieved that there was only one bio waiting for me in my in-box that had had some major revisions by the author and needed me to check it over. However, now that I have done that it is likely that our layout and design person will soon be sending me the final, complete, booklet to do one last edit. Somehow I doubt that a single hour will be enough to give the full version the attention it deserves.

My plan for the day is to head out for a trike ride now, then split the rest of the day between getting the house back into order (so far "unpacking" from the event has only consisted of getting the left over food put away, doing the laundry, and re-washing the dishes from the event--I want the rest of it dealt with straight away) and rediscovering where I left off on writing up my Italian research.

Tomorrow I need to head into town for an eye exam, and while there will head to the tax office to get my personal number (since my resident card arrived in yesterday's mail). Once I have that it will be possible to take care of other moving in tasks, like opening a local bank account, obtaining a local driver's licence, and looking for work (though I am not in that much of a hurry for the last one, since I am hopeful that the post-doc position for which I was invited to apply at the local uni will come through).

But before I go, I will provide you with links to photos of the cute mountain we stopped and climbed on our drive south. It hasn't changed much since the 1800's (scroll down).