Journey Notes

Here we go again, I’ve trained my word recognition program in the meantime, and it’s going really well already! I suppose other than telling you how I’m going with the word recognition program, perhaps you want to know a few things about my life!

Well then, it’s been a hot day here in Sydney, and I have bitten the bullet today to applying for the position of the research group leader, which is almost vacant, now that Roger is considering to retire. I’m not looking forward to the paperwork, but to have a bit of a say in what happens scientifically is a big carrot indeed. But all that is assuming I will get the position, which is by no means certain. and even if I do get it, it’s likely that because of the paperwork that someone else has to do in the meantime, it will be a while before I know.

Also, we have a federal election coming up on Saturday, and the chances are decent this time that John Howard will actually be booted out! (Not that I’m too hopeful for a real change in this country though — I’ve seen it all in Germany in 1998 when Helmut Kohl call was voted out after 16 years in power, and some people actually thought things would now change. Needless to say, they set themselves up for disappointment.) However, John Howard is tough as a cockroach — I still like cockroaches better — and therefore, I will believe he’s gone only when I see it. Our neighbours have invited us for a post-election party on Saturday night– it would be a relief to get out of the 1950s at long last!