Here goes...

Thank you to everyone who came to my slightly last minute party on Saturday; it was great to have one last chance to enjoy the multi-faceted conversations typical of Cambridge geek events. And lovely to see deborah_c and her excellent offspring, simont, pseudomonas, fivemack (sorry for making you ill), and some tree kangaroos on the BBC.

Yom Kippur was very much what I want out of the day, with a truly excellent rabbi and our lovely Reform liturgy, and a community I feel so much part of. I got loads of congratulations and good advice on the job, and generally even though it was a solemn occasion it also felt like a great send-off.

I have spent today packing, somewhat inefficiently, and have more to do this evening. Tomorrow morning my parents are driving me to Stoke-on-Trent and settling me in a doctors' flat there; it feels a lot like the first day of uni all over again! But yay for lovely parents making this far more less painful than it might be otherwise.

The thing about the flat is that it has no phone or internet access; I expect I'll be able to access the internet from work and on my new shiny phone, but I doubt I'll have lots of time for hanging out online. I would welcome text messages, phonecalls (or paper letters / postcards if you're into that). See locked post for contact details. And if I don't manage to post with life updates, I'll try to at least ping Twitter so you know I'm still alive.