First Posting

Hello from Oz-tralia,

We are well into Spring, and Carolyn is well into pregnancy. She just spent the week working in our department's office all week and is wiped out. Apparently having a growing baby in your belly is tiring because she was wiped out every evening.

Brian is feverishly working on a proposal for funding due on Monday. He's come a long way with it, but still has far to go. It's to work with the Desert Knowledge Collaborative Research Centre (DK-CRC) in Alice Springs studying the impact conflict in the Central Deserts of Australia has on the development of the region. It's a bit ambitious, but exciting.

This blog page is an attempt to find a more reliable means of keeping friends and family posted on our life here in Australia, especially as we are expecting our first child. So feel free to check this page regularly to read what's new in our neck of the woods. Also, you can post comments on what we have posted. All you need is access to the Internet and an ability to type.

Or you can just send us an email.

And I guess I should make it official. We are having a girl and her name (with about 90% certainty and a margin of error of about +/-5%) will be Célia Marie Adams. She is due January 12, 2006. Inter alia, per the repeated requests of an experienced grandmother, this blog will be used to post a list of things already purchased for Célia, to avoid duplication.