A week ago marked 6 years since I moved to Sydney and started work at uni. I left Melbourne on Sunday August 19 2001 to drive to Sydney, and started work on Wednesday August 22. It seems like such a long time ago now. Most of the time I really enjoy my work. There are times, though, when I don’t feel that I’m doing anything really worthwhile for my fellow humans or the planet/environment.

I’m also starting to feel a little lonely at work. The uni has quite a high turnover of people (staff, students) and so you find that while you make lots of friends, they generally leave again. In the last 12 months my boss has left, and Cheryl has gone back to England. Even if we were working on different things, Cheryl and I would often eat lunch together. Now Aurelie and I occasionally have lunch together, and Aurelie is great to chat to in the lab, but she’s going back to France for a month and then she’ll be back for about 4 months before she leaves again.  Sven was back in Australia for a week just recently, and as we sat around for our Monday morning tea, he realised that in the last 2 years since he left Australia we’ve had a lot of new people come to the Centre.  I realised then that there aren’t many people left who were around when I started work…just 4 out of some 20 people or so.

Life is generally a lot better than it was 6 years ago.  I have a home in  Sydney now, though it took a long time to find a place to settle down in and feel comfortable.  I have a husband, a baby on the way, and the Masters is all but finished.  But I do still miss my friends and family that I left behind in Victoria.

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