[Aunt Sally and Uncle Brian, you’ll be getting a beautiful printed copy of this]

Every year that I have been in Oxford has been different, and this one fell right into line. I spent more time outside of Oxford this year than in. I got back to America a record three times this year (four if you count last New Year’s), once during spring, once at the end of the summer, and then for Christmas. I also spent the summer in Austria as a Young Scientist at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. There are vast swaths of my time in Oxford that I seem to have no memory of, possibility because it became a home, someplace that I left and then returned to. I think that most of us can‚Äôt remember what we do most of the time at home. It‚Äôs when we travel and are in new circumstances that we remember best, and so those are the tales I will recount this year for my Year in Review. (more…)