hello blavel

I've realised that this year I will be heading to Melbourne three times... I haven't been yet, but heard lots about what an interesting place it is so I'm quite excited.

We're going for our first Melbourne adventure in two weeks- May 2nd- 4th. Had I realised that the monday of that weekend was also a public holiday, I would have organised for us to stay another night. It's our 1.5 year anniversary (I think I've written about this before) and also a few days after the boy's birthday. I'm not privy to what we'll actually be doing whilst down there on this trip, as AnkoNick is organising something special for us- fun, fun. We're flying tiger, so that should be ahhhh, shall we say, interesting? ha.

We'll also be in Melbourne 9th - 11th of july, as I'm presenting at the Australian Institute of Family Studies conference. I'd better make some moves on putting together the paper I'm supposed to be presenting for that conference, actually.

We'll then jet off for our round the world adventure from mid august until mid september.

Then off to Melbourne yet again in November for the QEC conference, where I shall be doing both an oral and poster presentation.

When I applied for these conferences, I was thinking that perhaps my abstracts be accepted for posters- never for a second thought that they'd want me to talk to them for half an hour about it. Now I'm going to have to write up a goddamn paper, lol. These are conferences of 500+ people... How completely terrifying.

Going camping at Aratula this weekend, so shall blavel about sometime soon too!