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[eirias]

Against rather steep odds, Mari & I got the grant we applied for to fund me in Finland. This means I can actually go.

Sent in my res permit app yesterday - unless they go outside of their window of how long it's supposed to take, I'll have it by the time I need to leave ;). But I applied for an extra-long stay just in case I don't have it by that time.

This also means I do not need to work myself to death trying to finish prelim #2 by Sept. 1 in order to apply for the smaller-but-still-sufficient travel grant offered by my university. Priority is now redistributed to finishing the paper and designing 2 experiments. November 1 is a good goal, though, because then I can be a dissertator before leaving.

So freakin' cool. If anyone wants me to bring back some salmiakki, speak up!

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[ex-miang438.livejournal.com]

Wow, congratulations! I'm glad it worked out for you.

[harleybitch.livejournal.com]

WOO HOO

[littlepurple.livejournal.com]

when you're there will there be any day light?
Should i come visit you? I've never been to finland.

[eirias.livejournal.com]

There'll be some, but not a lot. I'll basically be sandwiching the winter solstice, on which there's about 6 hours of late-afternoon-to-dusk-like daylight. If you want to visit you should, by all means! :) I can't guarantee what accomodations will be like but air mattresses should be cheap. Currently the only "blackout dates" are right around Christmas because Graham is going to be visiting then. I should be in Helsinki November 1 through March 1, approximately.

[tla]

Yay! See you this fall. :)

[eirias.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we will totally have to get together.

Are you planning to go back to the US for Thanksgiving? I'm not, and if you're not either, maybe that would be a fun time to meet up? Tickets from Hki to London are not actually that expensive, even nonstop... otherwise I'll have a few months to play with :).

[eldan.livejournal.com]

WOOT!

[cynic51.livejournal.com]

Although I am obviously glad you get to go to Finland, some small part of me is sad that I will no longer get to drink with you a few scant hours after you walk out of prelims. We shall simply have to find another excuse :-)

[blimix.livejournal.com]

Awesome! *HUGS* Yay! More *HUGS*

[ayb2.livejournal.com]

congratulations!!

[gieves.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That's very exciting :-)

*now plotting ways to get up to Helsinki before March 1*

[eirias.livejournal.com]

That would be excellent! :)
Again, no idea what kind of crash space I'll have to offer (I'll know when I get there), but you would both be welcome to stay with me if there's room. Or you could ask chrysaphi about hotels - she stayed in a hotel somewhere when she visited me in 2001. (OTOH, that was so many voyages ago for her, she may well not remember a thing. :) )

[trygve.livejournal.com]

Way to go!!

[madmanatw.livejournal.com]

Congrats! That rocks.