Been and Gone

Boston.
After a very brief few weeks in Brisbane, I'm back on the road again, for the second leg of my sabbatical. This trip takes me to Boston, where I'm a visiting scholar at MIT for the next couple of months. I'll also present at MiT5 and Creativity & Cognition 6, and when I return to Brisbane at the end of June, I'll hopefully have most of my upcoming produsage book ready to send to my publisher.

For now, though, I'm taking it easy these first few days here, dealing with my jetlag (which doesn't seem too bad right now, but we'll see). Having arrived late on Friday, I've started the weekend with the customary breakfast here in what a certain Kazakhi would call the U S and A, and have spent most of Saturday sightseeing and enjoying the very welcome springtime sunshine - at least for now, it looks like the weather will be nowhere near as ghastly as it was (at times) in Leeds. A few first snapshots are up on Flickr now - and I'm also enjoying the newish geotagging functions: nice way to explore the neighbourhood.

I'm also quite happy with my accommodation here: while it's apparently inevitable that I end up in the basement on trips like this, this one is a great deal more acceptable than the Leeds hovel - not least also because there's wireless access... And with a sizeable QUT Creative Industries delegation already in town for MiT5, as well as at least one permanent CI expatriate, the next few days might end up having a rather familiar feel. Still, I'm also looking forward to returning to Brisbane once again when this is all over.

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