All new blog!

So yeah, new blog (can't use LJ any more as the ex has that address and I don't particularly want to be posting stuff there any more... ;-) ). So yeah, what's going on? Its been a hectic summer, conferences in the US, friends getting married, observing at the GMRT in India, and yes, breaking up with David.

That one was really a long time coming; lots of problems since I moved out to France really, stuff that he wouldn't really admit to until things were over, but the bottom line was that there was an expectation that my career was secondary to his, I wasn't "supposed" to succeed or indeed carry on in academia after this post in France (get it all out of my system I guess... ;-) ), and he expected me to give it up, find a job in the "real world" and move to London. Oh well, sucks to be him... ;-) Does mean this weekend's going to be interesting -- it'll be the first time we've seen each other since I broke up with him, hopefully it shouldn't be too painful to give his stuff back and get mine back from his. And well, I have a good network of friends I can run too if things do get too painful!

On the plus side, I get to see my parents and family for a whole week (someone remind me of this around this time next week! ;-) ), and generally chill as work is closed for the entirity of next week. Explains the miserable weather then!