Best Dissertation Award

I won an award! My old department awarded me with best dissertation and they offered to fly me back to Davis to give a seminar. I took a couple of red-eye flights to get back there and back, but I gave a successful talk by most accounts. I'd really like to become the kind of speaker people flock to go see. You either have to be really good, or really famous to be one of these, but that's my goal. The crowd in the audience had about 50 people maybe, probably the largest crowd I've ever spoken in front of but most of them were there to either accept their own award or because they were my friends. While I was there I took a picture of Scorpio with her baby, a good looking duo if I do say so myself.