Come back to Texas

This will be just a short post...having just arrived back from a whirlwind trip all over Texas with my fiancee I am grateful to be home and have some sanity.

It was an amazing trip and the weather was sooo much more pleasent then it tends to be around Fermilab this time of year. However, for now this is home and it is always good to be home.

My overwhelming thought after this trip was a desire to one day move back to Texas and become facility at one of the Texas Universities. Ideally I'd like to shoot for UT Austin because I really love that city. One small hang up, they don't really do Hadron Physics (the type I'm into anyways). Now that doesn't mean I can't ramp up my work and become a major player in the field such that I would try to found a group there...(here is to hoping). More over though, I think it makes me consider what type of physics I want to move towards if Austin is my goal.

They are big players in neutrino physics and Fermilab is heading that direction with their move to the intensity frontier (Project X, NuMI, etc). Now is the time to start looking into this and considering it...guess it is one more thing to think about while working on that PhD