I write "Get out of town!" on a brick and throw it through a randomly chosen window. Inside, a strong-jawed but gentle-eyed single father is sitting on a sofa making notes on stack of papers while

I learn that Ross Kang, who was also at the Birmingham interviews, has got the NSERC post-doc fellowship that I am waiting to hear about. This disturbs me. There will probably be 200-300 of them given out, but

I fly to Birmingham for a interview to do a post-doc with Kuhn and Osthus.  I have not been doing much extremal graph theory lately, having somehow transitioned to graph homomorphisms, but I could certainly stand to get

During a Sunday afternoon run I solve an open problem. I'm a genius. I get home and put on the coffee. I stand in the door frame basking in my cleverness. I notice a drop of

God comes by and asks me to feed his cat while he goes to Majorca for a week on vacation. "Sure, no problem." I say, "but why do you need a vacation?" "Touché

I get a offer for a one year post-doc at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. The money isn't very good, but this is without teaching, so I could make it work. More importantly, it would make my

It's late. I get on a subway, and take a quick inventory of the other passengers. There is a man with wobbly jowls and a woman with bright red pants, but nothing else that really stands

Living in Prague, you get a good feel for when different countries have their major vacations. From about mid-January, Prague has been relatively empty of tourists. During early February, a large number of the tourist that were here,