if your name isn't mentioned, it's not that I don't like you, it's just that I'm bad with names?
It must mean something that the other day I received really awesome news, while nobody was home and Scott wasn't answering his mobile at work, and I was bursting to tell someone, and I didn't even think of coming to LJ and posting about it - instead I wrote an e-mail to my external Honours supervisor at the AFP and sulked until Scott called me back.
I just thought about LJ today as I am procrastinating from marking the last stack of papers for the semester. And you guys don't even know that I've made the decision not to teach next semester, or that I've been pondering doing a PhD in Israel with the world's best forensic chemist, or that I had even met him and hung out with him and debated my Honours research with him, etc.
And I wonder if it's because I have finally stopped saying "back home" when I mean "the US". Am I moving on to such an extent that I'm allowing myself to forget about you all?
Anyway, the good news is that my Permanent Residency application finally got approved (after 6 months to the day).
And even better is that I am eligible for Australian citizenship in 2 years, not the 5 that I was originally told about, but contingent upon that I must stay in the country for the next 2 years, which kind of destroys the idea of the Israel PhD. Would have been good for my career, but, going away to Israel for 3 years would mean I wouldn't be employable for 5 years, and that would be bad for my career I think.
And now instead of wanting to celebrate my good news I am feeling melancholy about having not thought, immediately, "OMG gotta tell Jeff and Brad and Nykki&Matt and Andrew and Liz and Randy and and and EVERYONE!"
Ah well ... back to marking ... melancholy is a good marking mood, anyway. :P
I just thought about LJ today as I am procrastinating from marking the last stack of papers for the semester. And you guys don't even know that I've made the decision not to teach next semester, or that I've been pondering doing a PhD in Israel with the world's best forensic chemist, or that I had even met him and hung out with him and debated my Honours research with him, etc.
And I wonder if it's because I have finally stopped saying "back home" when I mean "the US". Am I moving on to such an extent that I'm allowing myself to forget about you all?
Anyway, the good news is that my Permanent Residency application finally got approved (after 6 months to the day).
And even better is that I am eligible for Australian citizenship in 2 years, not the 5 that I was originally told about, but contingent upon that I must stay in the country for the next 2 years, which kind of destroys the idea of the Israel PhD. Would have been good for my career, but, going away to Israel for 3 years would mean I wouldn't be employable for 5 years, and that would be bad for my career I think.
And now instead of wanting to celebrate my good news I am feeling melancholy about having not thought, immediately, "OMG gotta tell Jeff and Brad and Nykki&Matt and Andrew and Liz and Randy and and and EVERYONE!"
Ah well ... back to marking ... melancholy is a good marking mood, anyway. :P