{"id":3392,"date":"2008-09-08T12:51:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T12:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/09\/its-monday-so-i-must-be-in\/"},"modified":"2008-09-08T12:51:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T12:51:48","slug":"its-monday-so-i-must-be-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/09\/its-monday-so-i-must-be-in\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Monday so I must be in…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spending time in my home country has become a rather fraught affair in the last couple of years – because I don’t live here, and my family and most of my friends still do, any visit back to British shores becomes a mad rush around all the various corners of the UK that people I know have spread themselves around into. Since I arrived almost three weeks ago, I’ve been to Colchester, Reading, Sheffield, and Edinburgh, as well as taking a number of trips into London (where I managed to meet Bob<\/a>*, and share a pint or three with GrrlScientist<\/a> and a constantly inebriated Professor Steve Steve<\/a>. I’m now in Southampton for a few days, where things look like they’re going to settle down a bit – lab work, paper corrections and (hopefully, finally) a bit of blogging.
\nThe problem comes when I realise that all this mad dashing around, fun as it is, has basically been my holiday. I’m not bemoaning the fact that I didn’t get to veg out on a beach – in such situations I’m normally climbing the walls within a day – but it does feel weird that I’ve spent all my free time, and more than a little of my meagre salary, visiting a place where in many ways I still feel more at home than my current, actual home<\/em>.
\nAnyway, the good news for you people is that the “holiday” is over, and thus normal(ish) service is about to resume.
\n*I would point out that although Bob claims to have won Mornington Crescent<\/a>, he forgot to turn 3 times widdershins before re-occupying Piccadilly Circus, which as everyone knows is automatic disqualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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