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I have been away. I am now back. Dublin remains a strange place to me. I spent a long time living there before moving to Paris in the mid-90s and I haven't lived there since. In that time the city has somehow become a stranger to me, so much so that I no longer can really imagine living there. It's great to visit, however, as many of my friends are there, my mother and brother are there, and sushi is available for purchase, unlike Cork, where sushi can only be obtained by making cow-eyes at my wife and hoping she can read the raw fish longing there.

I have so many friends' posts to catch up on it's not funny.

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Welcome back. I had 300+ emails to catch up on when I got back from my vacation, in addition a lot of posts to to read as well. It took me two days. :\

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You used to live in Paris?

In the town I live in (which has actually been amalgamated into the City of Hamilton, except everyone pretends it isn't so) we actually have a Japanese sushi restaurant.

And we can get pretty good sushi at our local supermarket where it is made in front of you. I routinely get some California roll for my wife and little girl (who both love it) as a snack.

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Paris? Oh yes. I lived there as a lad from 1982 to 1986 while my father was working in the Irish Embassy and OECD. I went to the American School of Paris and made friends with a bunch of Canadians (go figure) including Bryan Thexton, who I believe is a friend of Viktor Haag's, one-time A&Eer.

I was back in Paris for a couple of years working as a post-doc in Saclay, a small town outside Paris to the south-west. With more disposable income and access to the rather good game and comic shops of the 5eme arr. I managed to rack up a fairly expensive move home, laden with games, books and comics.

Sushi in Paris is pretty good too, and it was there that I first got my taste for it.

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How interesting. I never knew any of this about you, Myles. Do you know much French because of this out-of-country experience? I rarely get to practice my own high school version, the last time being a trip to Paris during between 1st and 2nd year medical school.

And what was your doctorate studies in, exactly?

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Hmm...there's only a slight diplomatic connection in our extended family. My wife's aunt is the current Canadian ambassador to Pakistan, and before that ambassador to the Czech Republic.

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My French isn't bad, but it's getting rustier by the day. I spoke (and read) it regularly in my previous job working for Alcatel, a French telecoms company, but I haven't really had any call to use it in the last three years. After my time as a post-doc my French was pretty good.

My doctorate was in astronomy. I studied star formation, particularly precursor A and B type stars known as Herbig Ae/Be stars. Mostly spectroscopy, some imaging and photometry.

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