Well, this is it... NASA awaits.
Jun. 11th, 2004 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
compilerbitchIt's all happening. Really quickly.
After months and months of paperwork wrangling, I finally got my visa last week. NASA booked the plane tickets on Friday. I am leaving on Sunday at 10.05 from Heathrow, and will arrive before late afternoon local time.
It's quite scary.
I start work on Monday in the automated software engineering group at NASA Ames lab. I'm going to be there for 10 weeks, then I'm going to two back-to-back conferences in Italy, and will finally get back to the UK in September.
It will be a long time to be away from friends, and of course from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
doseybat, but it's really quite an amazing opportunity, so I have to do it really. Well, I am, so it's a moot point realistically.
I'm quite nervous about going somewhere that far away for that long, not really knowing people locally. I know there are one or two LJ friends list people somewhere near, so take this as an Official Announcement:
I would like to meet up with people. :-)
I should still have net access while I'm there, so I'll be posting more about my experiences as the weeks go by.
Oh, I'll be working here:
The big building (which is enormous, apparently) is the world's largest wind tunnel. More specifically, it's the air intake!
After months and months of paperwork wrangling, I finally got my visa last week. NASA booked the plane tickets on Friday. I am leaving on Sunday at 10.05 from Heathrow, and will arrive before late afternoon local time.
It's quite scary.
I start work on Monday in the automated software engineering group at NASA Ames lab. I'm going to be there for 10 weeks, then I'm going to two back-to-back conferences in Italy, and will finally get back to the UK in September.
It will be a long time to be away from friends, and of course from
doseybat, but it's really quite an amazing opportunity, so I have to do it really. Well, I am, so it's a moot point realistically.I'm quite nervous about going somewhere that far away for that long, not really knowing people locally. I know there are one or two LJ friends list people somewhere near, so take this as an Official Announcement:
I would like to meet up with people. :-)
I should still have net access while I'm there, so I'll be posting more about my experiences as the weeks go by.
Oh, I'll be working here:
The big building (which is enormous, apparently) is the world's largest wind tunnel. More specifically, it's the air intake!
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Date: 2004-06-11 07:56 am (UTC)YAY for you!
I'm probably visiting
The area is beautiful, and the US is nicer than the reports are spouting, and you can see how we oust a President firsthand *evil grin* WHEEEEE!
I'm sorry you're going out so FAST tho, but it must be nice to be needed like that!
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Date: 2004-06-11 10:10 am (UTC)But yes, I would love to meet up if you're going to be somewhere near. If you want to come to Mountain View, I will probably be able to show you around. You can play with Mars rovers, it seems! :-)