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Two and a half weeks of Mexican food!

We just returned from a brief trip back to the good old USA. L needed to check back in to her home office in Boston, Massachusetts. So, we flew back in early April.

It's hard to believe it, but our year in Japan is more than half way over. After one year, mission control for L's satellite will migrate to Boston, so we'll definitely be moving back there at the end of the summer. Our return to America is starting to sneak up on us, and that means it's time to start thinking about the future. While L was in Boston checking in with her colleagues, I spent my time searching for a job.

Some of you may know that I have been devoting a lot of my energy into science education, and so I am taking this opportunity to search for jobs that have a strong education component, rather than science research like I've been doing for the last several years. I talked with people doing research into how people learn, people that design educational curricula, the Boston Museum of Science, and teaching positions at the high school and college level. I'm not sure exactly where I can make the best contribution (or who will hire me), but I met with people about every other day for informational interviews and a couple of more formal job interviews. I'm still waiting to hear if I will receive any job offers from the interviews, but I had a fun time talking with people about what they do.

Other than work, we visited with friends, walked around Boston, and got snowed on during two different April storms. After two weeks in Boston, we went to New Mexico where L attended a conference. We spent time with her parents, and then flew back home. We even got to see my parents during a four hour layover in the San Francisco airport.

Overall, a great trip. And the best part? Getting to eat decent Mexican food for two and a half weeks straight!

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