So I'm 28.

In Miami-Dade County, this event was changed to April 5th, on account of how everyone has stuff to do on Mondays, so Saturday was fun and today will be about furious qual-reading.

The pseudo-birthday involved a lot of people I haven't seen in far too long, a nice Mexican place on South Beach, a hookah bar, night-time swimming in the ocean and possibly as much as a drop or two of alcohol.

My wonderful sister sent me "The Steep Approach to Garbadale" by Iain Banks, which is excellent. I've only read the first 70 pages or so, but so far it looks like it might be my favorite Banks novel since "The Crow Road." Also on a Scottish theme, two of my fellow grad students in Miami got me a very lovely bottle of Glenfiddich, which I've been trying very hard not to use up too quickly.

Meanwhile, the full list of accepted papers for the Australia conference is on-line.