Playing catch-up

It's not unusual to feel behind. In fact it is part and parcel of the job. There are just too many hats to wear, too many tasks to attend to. If you don't feel a little bit swamped you're probably not doing enough, or you figured something out and should let me know the secret. One of the many things I need to play catch-up on is this blog.

Here's the quick and dirty summary of events since the last entry. I received multiple post-docs offers, made the very difficult (and also very easy) decision to take the offer  in Australia, I wrote a dissertation, defended said dissertation, move to Virginia to teach for the summer, packed up my life, traveled the US visiting friends and family, and moved my immediate family to the literal opposite side of the world.

We've been here for 2 months now, which doesn't sound like a long time but we've packed it in. In those 2 months I've been busy as a bee trying to keep all the balls I'm juggling in the air. I am simultaneously working on getting some manuscripts from my dissertation work published, writing a book chapter over some of that research, completing all the paper work and jumping through all the usual hoops necessary to start a new project plus a few added hoops because I'm new in this country, learning the new skills I'm using for this project, writing proposals to get some money for this project, and starting the actual data collection for the project.

But don't think I am complaining. I've always been a better at multitasking than single-tasking. Plus, I really do enjoy what I do and I'm hard at work ticking things off the to-do list  one-by-one. So, on that note, here's an inspirational light switch cover we saw on our US travels.