Just a couple of things for fellow geoblogospherians to consider, if you haven’t already. Firstly, Maria is participating in the Donors Choose funding drive. The projects that she’s trying to get funded are all aimed at bringing geological goodness to those in educational need. Plus, now she’s even offering bribes prizes to those who donate. If you haven’t already, think about sticking a few dollars in the pot.
Secondly, I’ve just registered myself for the ScienceOnline09 Blogging conference, being held next January in North Carolina. It would be cool if we could get a posse of geobloggers in the same place for once. We could even have our own session… in a manner of speaking. Anyone interested?

Whilst I’m on the subject of anniversaries, I should note that I’ve just passed another milestone: last Monday marked the third anniversary of Highly Allochthonous. If you ignore the occasional hiatus, I’ve now been blogging for 10% of my life, which, when you think about it, is a tad scary. I’ve been in two minds about how to mark this marginally august occasion, but then I remembered that when I was sharing a few beers with my good friend GrrlScientist in London a few weeks ago, I’d promised her that I’d tell the story of how I got into this whole blogging malarky in the first place. It’s a somewhat rambling and convoluted tale, so if I end up boring you, just remember that it’s all her fault.

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