Research Party!

I gave my talk yesterday (comments: "That was the fastest talk I've ever seen"; "You've reached the point where you don't know what you're doing any more") which meant today I could just chill like Broca and Wernicke over here:
I also got to explore the posters at leisure, and they were mostly delightful:Afterwards we headed downtown, spotting our only Dutch windmill from afar:

APhL closed out our journey together with a putative lab tradition (and longstanding Pud tradition), special tasty pizzas.

Edutainment

Our hosts took us out for a night on the Nijmegen, where we got to see what I want all of my walls to look like:

...while visiting the museum built around Nijmegen's oldest wall-slash-cesspit:

They had pretty scary monster statues, too, except they turn out to be plague-doctor statues:

Then it was off to dinner at the armory, where everything comes with goat cheese and every beer is Belgian:
Then a few of us went out to chase bikes to a 600 year old pub. I can think of few better descriptions of Holland.

The Hajj

Today we made our first pilgrimage to one of Psycholinguistics' holiest sites. I can only barely believe that it's real: A federal-level research institute in my subfield. Hosting a conference on my thesis topic. It's hard not to think of it as research paradise.

.... Everything will be just fine!

All of us are very excited! This is why are we excited!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Kyle, Bekka and Olivia hosted a delicious Thanksgiving party! The trick to taking candid photos is to keep taking them until people forget that you're taking pictures. Until _most_ people forget, anyway.

I miss Matsuya so much

Banff was full of beautiful views, as usual.

Prairie Gardens, Adventure Farms

The corn maze wasn't as good I expected, but the faded zombie hippo statues were delightfully terrifying.

You live in the Universe, but you never do these things.

The AGA lives up to the hype, I'd say.