If you have a blog and nobody reads it...

Why do you keep doing it? Given that I sent out the url for this bad boy to like 80 people today, there is a chance that one of them may read it. Possibly.

Anyway, I should be packing for my trip, but instead I am pissing about on the intarwebs. So very unlike my usual behaviour. After singing the praises of my massive Sennheiser headphones to Seb at futsal yesterday, and recommending them on a forum, they broke today. Boo. However, I went to Surry Hills to empty my brothers mail box, and found myself walking past Billy Hyde's drum shop, and picked up a sweet new pair of Koss headphones. They sound good, are hella comfortable and I don't have to turn sideways to go through doorways - what's not to like? I am currently rocking out to The Heliocentrics. They are good in a weird sci-fi, jazz and funk kind of way.

Anyway, the reason for this whole self-indulgent malarky is that I'm going away for a bit. My itinerary looks something like this:
12-15th March - Hong Kong. Chilling, hanging out, maybe doing some climbing and buying of stuff.
16th-19th March - Manchester. Genomes to Systems conference.
20th-21st March - London. Angus (my brother) gets in late-ish on the 21st, but I have a bit of time to hang out and spend vast quantities of cash.
22nd - 29th March - Fontainebleau baby! For those of you who don't climb, Font (if you're of Anglo extraction) or 'Bleau (if you are a Frenchie) is a world renowned climbing destination, and it's been on my list of places I must go for years. It will be rad.
30th March - June 5th. - Cambridge, working with the ridiculously talented people in Steve Oliver's lab.
June 5th-19th - visiting Johann Thevelein in Leuven, then trundling around hanging out in Germany. Tom is in Berlin, Lincoln is in Berlin, Captain Chaos is in Germany somewhere. Euro 2008 is on in Austria during that time, so I may head down for that. I'm really looking forward to Berlin, and I turn 26 at some stage during this period. I'm flying out of Frankfurt.

Oliver Jones is in Oxford, so I might try and visit him, and Jette is going to be in Brighton, so I might try and check out Russ Dewbury's club night there. All in all, it should be eighteen different flavours of awesome, and I'll hopefully be able to not totally fuck things up and sort out some kind of job type arrangement at the end. I am, it has to be said, quite excited. I should probably pack, eh?