The Blog is Back!

Sorry for the protracted absence, but I took a few weeks off. I did some skiing/sledding in traveling in Switzerland with my girlfriend and others, then returned with her to Cambridge England for much reading, rest, relaxation, and rekindling of old squash rivalries.

Now that I'm back in town, I'm having a brief period of productivity (which will soon be spoiled by next weeks Center for Theoretical Physics ski retreat, and then my parents coming). I've decided that I want to go to this conference . I think I can get the funding (even though I have nothing at all to contribute to the conference) and both my academic and research advisors appear to be speaking. I use the term "research advisor" rather loosely, as we've had one meeting where he said "read this paper, then come back to me," but I am still hopeful. I plan on meeting him tomorrow about the paper, but I wonder if it's appropriate, right before I ask him my long list of stupid questions about the paper, if I ask him if he can take me to Brazil with him.