Hey there, 2012!

Things have been pretty good so far! Susi and I are enjoying our cozy little apartment, there has been some good day and night-time skiing, and  NYE was nice, but pretty unspectacular without fireworks. We did a weekend trip to Vancouver Island with Emily, where we spent Saturday and Sunday in Victoria. My personal highlight was the National Geographic Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Royal BC Museum, which of course is totally non-specific for Victoria :P We're now finally regulars at Darby's, the little pub just a block away from our house.
I was super unproductive at work for the first two weeks, but things are improving since last week. A plan for the year is slowly developing: In a committee meeting this coming Tuesday I'm gonna try to define a few clear goals in terms of my research. There's a few conferences/workshops/collaborations coming up that will hopefully enable me to travel a little bit. Two one-week trips to Germany are coming up in April and August, and potentially another one in September. My supervisor Mark is gonna go on sabbatical starting in September, and has emphasized several times now that we're more than welcome to join him there for a few weeks. Guess a skiing trip to Colorado is in order towards the end of the year then :)
After what felt like the longest time ever I finally got around to buying some paint. The first production of 2012 is done! Check out some pics from various events during the last view weeks as always on my Picasa page.

- Poppy Love -