Wow, I forgot to post this for a long time. I blame the excessive work-related travel (the Canaries, India) followed by interviews, a two-day workshop, and marking.
Wow, I forgot to post this for a long time. I blame the excessive work-related travel (the Canaries, India) followed by interviews, a two-day workshop, and marking.
A dizzying array of places. Tenerife => home => Norfolk => Nairobi => home => London => home => Wales. It's possible I may have forgotten something interim as well.
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[A view of my crossed legs as I lounge in the swing in the lobby of my Tenerife hotel.]
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omnipotent asked for a cute dress selfie. I know you can't see the full dress here, but this is a good impression of the way this rich purple woolen sheath dress makes me feel. It was bequeathed to me by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
dizzykj before she moved to the States, and it's a favourite. I also like that the little bows on my black suede flats have come undone. Talks done, time to relax: even my shoes agree.In totally unrelated news, Keiki unlocked the achievement "Baby's First Poo In The Bath" tonight. Chaotic scenes ensued as both children were hastily evicted and the bath drained, bleached and refilled. The second bath proved a success. No tears were shed before bedtime. However, I reserve the right to cry softly into my gin in a minute.
An assortment of dSLR photos from Tenerife. Most of this first lot were taken after I arrived on Sunday, as I didn't have much time otherwise to take photos apart from my daily balcony selfie.
My foot, framed by my flowy black dress, as I walk through the sand.
( Walking around Costa Adeje )
And some photos from my phone. I ran every morning I was in Adeje. It was such a pleasure. There's wide stone promenade that winds for several kilometres along the waterfront with lots of places where you can dip down and run on the sand for a spell if you like.
Having time to myself is a rare and precious luxury. I reveled in being able to roll out of bed, put on my running gear and just go.
Came the dawn.
( Early morning running around Costa Adeje )
( A bit of R&R )
Me in my Rosetta mission t-shirt on my last morning in Tenerife, soaking up the sun.
My foot, framed by my flowy black dress, as I walk through the sand.
( Walking around Costa Adeje )
And some photos from my phone. I ran every morning I was in Adeje. It was such a pleasure. There's wide stone promenade that winds for several kilometres along the waterfront with lots of places where you can dip down and run on the sand for a spell if you like.
Having time to myself is a rare and precious luxury. I reveled in being able to roll out of bed, put on my running gear and just go.
Came the dawn.
( Early morning running around Costa Adeje )
( A bit of R&R )
Me in my Rosetta mission t-shirt on my last morning in Tenerife, soaking up the sun.
Me in another dress, on my balcony. Did I mention I only brought dresses to wear at this meeting? YAY DRESSES.
The Operations Review is over. I have completed one presentation. Tomorrow, the Cross-Calibration meeting begins, and I do my second presentation.
I have been running on the beach before the dawn both mornings so far. I have eaten ALL THE THINGS because this resort is all-inclusive with the food and the drinks. I have been swimming in, and lounging by, the pool with my fellow lady engineer/programmer/scientist colleagues. I have done a great deal of work, including some on-the-fly analysis that I've just put into tomorrow's presentation. I'm feeling accomplished.
It just might be rum o'clock.
I'm in Tenerife for, believe it or not, work. I had to arrive a day early because the first instrument team talk on Monday morning is mine.
So this is me after a long Skype conversation with my family, standing on the balcony outside my ridiculously-outsized-for-one-person room, breathing deeply.
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