Today is the 2 year anniversary of my arrival at TASP, I just realized . . .

Item 1:
I got my missionary assignment - I'm going to Manchester, England! I'm really excited. I think it will be a good two years. Unfortunately, I don't think I'm going to be able to blog while I'm out there. But I'll be sending out monthly email reports about what I'm up to, so I'm think I'll deputize my sister to post those here.

Item 2:
TASP reunion in Cambridge, some weekend in July! Charles, Dylan, and I (currently stationed in Rhode Island) are all pretty flexible, although we're particularly interested in the TASPer-birthday-ridden-weekend of the 7th and the 8th. If you think you might be free to make it up here sometime in this general timeframe, comment on this post and let us know. Henrik and Sanju, I know you're not TOO too far from Boston. Starting at 3 TASPers, this has the potential to be a record-breakingly-large reunion. So don't miss out if you can help it!

Hope everyone's summers are turning out splendidly! Research here is going well so far, although I've just barely started - I meet my supervising professor, who is Australian and hopefully sympathetic to callow undergraduates, tomorrow. I spend most of the day holed up in a windowless computer lab, but when I get out of work I have no homework and the world is beautiful. Also I have a room to myself, for the first time in my life, which has benefits.

Ruth sent the first report from TASP at WashU - they have no Internet in their frat house, but they also have no readings. Ah, TASP . . .

Groetjes,
Sam