Visions, Vistas and Visitors

OK... I know I havent been updating. Its been insanely intensely busy, and will continue to be so until christmas including a conference presentation, right through till after new year to make measurements on a visiting recorder virtuoso, and then more busy teaching until end of February, where I hope I get a breather, before the new semester plunges right back in. (Womadelaide 07 anyone??)

Been here for two semesters now. I wonder how many more to be before I'm through. I think I have some stuff to write about in my thesis now. Maybe 3 pages. That's alot better than 1 paragraph from july! Grrrr. Oh well. Chugging on.

On the lighter side of things, there've been a spate of visitors and visits, something which I am grateful for. In order of appearance/disappareance
- Clement (lab intern and resident bassist) from my lab who's gone back to france,
- Vincent, hot from Lop-Buri Thailand here to visit a special someone
- Chloe, fr Brissy here to catch our classmate's wedding
- Visited Jervis Bay w Vincent and Judy, with lovely beaches, and lonely cliffs, and migrating humpback whales! According to the Guiness Records, the beach we visited has the whitest sands in the world. followed immediately by
- Terence, fresh from Melbourne after a 1200km drive. After a few weeks' respite,
- Mervin John appears! Both Mervin and Terence are secondary school buddies, and we've somehow kept in good touch since. Wonderful pple.

Clement leaves

Vincent - missionary to Nongkhai
Chloe, Vince, me - chinatown mid-amble

Heh... What can I say?
Booderee National Park, ACT
Humpback Whale showing its namesake hump

Terence visits!
Merv John Visits!