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“Doctor! We have a pulse!”

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Yes, I am still alive! Unfortunately I haven’t spent the last 2 months on holidays in Cairns either, as James suggested here. Life has been very very busy. Since the IPELS2007 conference in Cairns some of the following has transpired…

  • I’ve had a new housemate living with us for two months (his name is Denis and he is visiting from Germany)
  • Spent a week in Sydney at the Australian Space Science Conference
  • The soccer season has come to a close - we didn’t make the finals
  • I scored the winning goal in the ANU Research Schools Final, the Purple Shin - more on that later
  • Been flat out in the lab doing lots of different things
  • My first journal paper got accepted for publication - yippee!!
  • Went to JT & Annie’s wedding in Sydney
  • Indulged my passion for gardening and started a vegetable garden at home, only to see it wither in the heat
  • And numerous other things…

More details will be coming soon, but the two big things that are coming up are pretty exciting :) Christina will be arriving in Canberra permanently this Tuesday and I will be heading to the US for two weeks in November to attend a planetary exploration conference at NASA Ames. The other not so exciting thing in the horizon is my PhD Mid Term Review on 22nd November - eeekk!

A-League Comes to Canberra

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Celebrations After Goal #2

On Sunday afternoon I headed to Canberra Stadium to see Sydney FC take on the Central Coast Mariners in the A-League Pre-Season Cup. It was a good game which the Mariners won 3-0. There is a good overview of the match on the Football in the Capital blog. There was also a reasonable turn out of some 5,700 people which isn’t bad given how bitterly cold it was. Here are some of the other photos I took…

Branko Culina Tony Popovic The Toss Mariners Free Kick

Celebrations After Goal #1 Rudan & Petrovski Tony Vidmar Celebrations After Goal #3