Photos are up from my Switzerland trip, and have been for some time looks sheepish. They can be found here. Highlights include the Rhinefall, the Lion of Lucerne, and most importantly the Blind Cow!

So, yesterday several graduate students congregated at a pub in Jericho for a traditional Sunday lunch. It was a very leisurely affair, we probably sat there for two hours just chatting the day away. Several new students have joined our ranks from across the Channel, mostly here on various science internships. They’re a welcome addition to our community.

So, the Trinity graduate students are now officially embattled against the college authorities. The college has placed a seemingly innocuous ten-pound “housing subsidy” charge on our battels (fees), which covers fees for a house owned by the college which graduate students no longer used. While this is a meagre sum of money, we’re upset that the college has decided to levy this charge without consulting the graduate committee. Our fearless president has met with college authorities today, and while the college has apologized for this and other oversights in communication they are refusing to relent. So, we’re now entering into a phase of guerilla warfare and passive resistence. Graduate students will cease offering their services to the colleges in terms of giving tours to visitors and aiding in fundraising actiities. While of course this decision is at the discretion of each individual, I’m hoping collectively our voice will make the college take heed.

So, let’s see, other than these interesting interludes my life has become fairly cyclical. Wake up, work, have lunch with my fellow graduates, work some more or go for coffee, cook dinner, go to bed, repeat.

This Easter weekend Andrew and I are invited to Andy’s hometown of Maidenhead for festivities. I’m looking forward to it, in spite of Andy’s protests that there’s nothing in Maidenhead worth seeing or doing. But people are vastly more important than places, and in the right company any locale can be enjoyable. So if I don’t post before then, I’ll have a report and maybe some pictures for show-and-tell.