legionnaire

Well, now I live in England. Funny how something like that can happen so quickly.

I arrived on Friday morning after an uneventful flight on the not-so-lovely Air India. After sitting for 1+ hours in line at immigration I finally got on the tube to London, grabbed a train at King's Cross and arrived in Cambridge at noon. Checked into my room in the lovely Christ's College (yes I'm actually living here for the moment):



and went to work an hour later, where I finally got to meet my boss and coworkers. All of whom turned out to be really nice people. I'm pretty excited about my new project, I'm going to studying the relationship between Ih (that's the inward current resulting from a hyperpolarizing membrane potential in neurons) and neuropathic pain. It's far more applied than my previous research, so it should put a nice human face on things in a way that my other work hasn't.

Since then I've been learning the lay of the land in Cambridge, finding my bearings, and trying really hard to find a place to live. It's been harder than I thought because a lot of people seem deterred by my bringing Cassius, my cat (I'll post a photo once I have one, he's great) in August when he'll be formally eligible to clear quarantine. But I've seen a few places and have others lined up, and am hopeful to nail something down within the next few days.

I hope you're all well out there in porno-land, and anyone who's nearby., let me know and we'll grab a pint. Since the closest people I know are in Paris and Munich it would be nice to see a friendly face.