I told a friend earlier this week that my life in the past few months--since I last wrote in this blog--has consisted of two states: (a) about 90% of the time, sitting in front of a computer, madly writing or analyzing data, with some deadline near at hand, and (b) about 10% of the time, wandering about overseas, often with a nice drink in my hand.

During the past 2 years, I've been working on three concurrent experiments, and all have been producing interesting results. So this has been the year to report those results: first at a conference in Baltimore in May, then in Sweden in June. Soon I travel again: to Brighton, England, and then to Minneapolis for the final conference of the season. I've also had the opportunity to travel to Kyrgyzstan to help with project fieldwork--what an amazing country it is, and how destroyed are my fearful stereotypes of Central Asia! And I participated in a wonderful workshop at the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands.

As one travels in this electronically-linked world, these days, one leaves little cyberfootprints behind. Below is a link to a photo on the website of the Sweden conference (I'm the one in blue, expostulating to a Norwegian researcher)...