Category Archives: Once Upon an Island

Spending large amounts of time on an airplane is…fun. It also means that your sense of time becomes completely skewed. Today, after arriving, my body is convinced it is in Los Angeles, North Carolina, and New Zealand, all at the same time. Besides that, no confusion whatsoever. Today’s highlights: Walking around the park where IContinue reading “Day 1”

Today is packing day. After submitting my work project at 1:15 this morning, everything is a bit fuzzy on the uptake, but things are going in my bag, and they’re probably things I need. Probably. Thoughts of the morning It feels strange to be digging out my polypro and wool socks and gloves while it’sContinue reading “1 day to Aotearoa”

I think today for the first time, it hit me that I’ll be traveling to New Zealand on a research grant in just over two weeks. Yikes. Can I say that again? Yikes. Thanks. All of a sudden, “plenty of time” means very little. The stack of books I was supposed to have read seemsContinue reading “Research – T minus 15 days”