Vacation!!!

Today I gave my talk at the IREP conference, so now I am officially done and on vacation. The talk was well received, I think. I was one of a handful of English-speaking presenters, but I think after my 30-second introduction in my broken French, people were probably happy I spoke English. I find it particularly hard after being 100% immersed in Spanish to switch over, and my French was never that good.

The weather continues to suck. Today it snowed for a while, and when it wasn't snowing it was drizzly and right around freezing. I got a couple of hours of work done after the conference and then joined Arnaud and Nadine from Havas, as well as Andrey and Dejan from Icosystem. Well, not really: Andrey has his own company and consults for us, Dejan is officially CTO of Concentric as of 12/1/10. It is really cool getting together with them again.

My bus leaves at 6am tomorrow morning -- early rise. Better hit the sack. Hopefully I will sleep better than I did last night. My next entry should be from Marrakech, where at least the temperature will be warmer... Adieu, Paris!