Life is getting a bit easier!

Hola todos mis amigos y amigas!!!

Thankfully, work is getting very slightly less busy now that 4 teaching weeks are nearly over! And so the blogging might return soon with more postings.

News: great to hear from Silvia today after believing she had relocated to an Outer Mongolian village - I'll reply this afternoon to your email Silvia. Your life sounds very exciting!

Tonight is when I do my annual angular momentum demonstrations to first year students! This is seriously dangerous stuff - I stand on a one metre wide lecture bench front of class on a turntable and then do crazy things with heavy wheels that involves a lot of rotation. Might not sound too bad, but you can imagine how dizzy you get. It's hard to stay on the bench. Wish me luck!!!

Also, I'm planning on showing the students a CD viewed down a high power microscope. If you haven't every looked down a microscope at a CD before, you haven't lived!!!! It's quite a mind-boggling thing to think about how what you see is translated into the musical strains of your favourite bands! It's all about 1's and 0's of course. I'll try to post a picture sometime.

Well, must run now, lots to do. Hoping to do a bit of painting this weekend - can feel some strange images trying to get out of my fingers! Brace yourselves for some weird art.