Monthly Archives: April 2008

Hey blog fans, did you miss me?! We had our mid-programme break at the Grand Canyon and there was no internet access, so I wasn’t able to keep you updated. Though I have to admit I was quite pleased to have the enforced web silence – it’s quite exhausting keeping you informed of my progress!Continue reading “I’m back!”

Florida started EEEEARLY, getting off the red-eye from Las Vegas at 7am. I picked up a rental car at Fort Lauderdale – got a PT Cruiser because there were no compacts left. It was a much nicer drive than I thought. I drove to the hotel in Boca Raton, checked in and crashed out forContinue reading “Florida Days 1 and 2”

So, haven’t posted for a few days, but you’ll understand why! Vegas was madness itself, but at the end of the day I think I quite liked it. Yes it was brash, loud, over the top, but it didn’t pretend to be anything else. The conference itself was interesting enough. And HUGE – thousands ofContinue reading “Benvenido a Miami”

So I arrived in Vegas on Saturday afternoon from St Louis. When I handed in my rental car there, it was snowing. When I got outside the airport in Vegas it was about 85 degrees. BLISS! I met up with Chak Hee when I got to the hotel and we set off to explore theContinue reading “Las Vegas Day 1”

After 24 hours in Vegas I’m still not sure what I think of it! I was pretty appalled when I arrived. Then I found all the fab shops, which tempered my view (ahem). Then I saw it after dark, when it all seems a bit more fun. The Bellagio fountains were lovely. But the wholeContinue reading “Vegas is insane!”

No, not another homesickness post, but a great night out in St Louis listening to a fab R&B band. And of course I mean proper R&B not that modern rubbish. After my day out at Monsanto, we had an Eisenhower Fellow thing organised by one of this year’s US Fellows from St Louis at aContinue reading “St Louis blues!”

It was an early start today, leaving the hotel at 8am for Monsanto, with some nice oatmeal under my belt! The weather was totally foul but David’s instructions were right on the money and so I got there no problem at all. My first meeting was with three people from their communications team. The mainContinue reading “St Louis Day 1”

If you were getting into a car with someone, how happy would you be for her to say “Actually I’ve never driven an automatic before. And I’ve never driven a left-hand drive car. ooh and I haven’t driven any kind of car since July”. Heehee, poor Gil deserves a medal. Still, he made it aliveContinue reading “Driving Gil crazy”

We checked out of the hotel this morning and headed to our meeting at the North Carolina Biotechnology Centre. Yes, you’ve already heard about them – I was there previously, meeting with Steven Burke. Today we met with a wider range of people working in the centre, including on their education programmes, their small loansContinue reading “North Carolina/St Louis”