Going home…
Despite Thomas Wolfe’s wild claim, you can go home, and today I am going home. That is, I am leaving for home in the evening but it will be past midnight before I am actually home.
I’ve been in Oxford and London the last few days — last weekend in Oxford and this week in London — visiting Jotun Hein in Oxford and David Balding at Imperial College.
The Oxford visit was more social than work. Over the weekend, it couldn’t really be more, but it was nice meeting the people there (whom Jotun had working weekends, of course).
The visit to Imperial was for making progress on a paper I am writing with David. We didn’t make as much progress on it as I’d have liked — the time was simply too short — but we have a plan for how to progress from here, so that is fine. Meeting the group here and chatting with people has been very stimulating.
I’ve never really been much for going to conferences. Sometimes they inspire me to some work, but usually I am just bored through most of it. I’m just not good at sitting quietly and listening to talks. Visiting people and chat with them, on the other hand, I find very inspiring. Plus, you really learn a lot from talking with people that they would never mention in a formal presentation.
Anyway, now I’m soon on my way home. Teaching awaits me when I am back, so until the end of term I won’t be able to go travelling again. Over summer I probably will. Most likely to DeCODE.