Work, work...

I thought I'd give a brief post about why I'm in South Korea and some brief general aspects of my research.  I came here to set up a laboratory to basically do the same things I do in America.  From there the goal was to publish a paper or three and use those to form the basis of my dissertation.  This is a picture of the lab set up here in Korea:

That's the equipment we use to test cables, and we received some samples from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which is a governing body on nuclear power for creation of standards.

A couple of days ago one of the project managers at my school in USC sent me an email saying that they were looking to dismantle my laboratory in the United States and wanted to know what equipment I still needed for my dissertation (great news! ...not really).  I'll have minimal space now (probably in a janitor's closet).

My first thought probably should have been to different projects that I had going on there...but in actuality, I thought about my collection of Goldfish boxes I started in 2008 to see how many Goldfish crackers I could eat by the end of my dissertation?  The answer was "a lot."  I've started a much more modest collection in Korea as well.