Have just successfully completed my first work trip since becoming a host organism! Went quite well, was only ill 1 of the 4 mornings, and thankfully not on the plane or anywhere except my hotel room. I think it might be tapering off (yippee!!). Was tired etc as usual, and it was hard to resist kicking on with the others for the lovely Hindley Street night life, but one must make sacrifices at certain times in their life. Even managed to make it for breakfast at the Central Markets, which didn't disappoint. Wanted to do my grocery shopping then and there, but it wasn't exactly practical.
Conference was quite stimulating, and even made a few contacts which could be useful should I want to work elsewhere in the next few years. Highlight was a presentation from the Aussie Nobel Peace Prize winner, discussing the diagnostic innovations and commercialisations that resulted from his team's breakthrough discovery that a bacterium causes stomach ulcers.
I was able to tag on an overnight stay at my folk's place at the end of my conference, which was an added bonus. My folks are getting more interesting as they get older... they are both active participants in their local reconciliation group, which has erected a cool monument and meeting place on the site of a home where some "stolen generation" kids were raised after being removed from their families in northern SA, and is now a major destination for school kids as part of their Australian Studies programs. Mum's busy with a PhD, while Dad is weaning out of work, knocking back involvement in further committees, and working his impressive vege garden, with 3 compost bins, and crops as diverse as bok choy, asparagus and a blueberry bush!! After 30 years of good soil management, the Adelaide hills clay is now a dark brown soil rich in organic matter and earthworms.
To do list for week:
- talk to personnel dept about maternity leave situation (of course, when you re-read the policy, it's not as clear cut as it seemed 6 months ago)
- disclose to bosses that am a host organism before it gets obvious (and so I can "come out" in general, as am nearing the magic 2nd trimester)
- find some pants and skirts that can "grow with me"
Easy peasy.
1 comment:
Lovely to see you on weekend groover. Thanks for spontaneous lend of (half of!) your 'day bed' and for the flowing beverages of both the sat night & sunday aro kind. You are a lovely (dare I say it)... host!:)
Congrats on breaking the news to the boss and colleagues - must be able to breathe a BIG sigh of relief. I have already spotted a few comfortably sized skirts and tops in the wardrobe that I will eventually bundle up and send your way. Keep nibbling and napping (I know I will be, and I don't even have a good excuse!)
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