My final week at the Canadian Light Source

I've been having a great time serving as writer-in-residence at the Canadian Light Source, Canada's national synchrotron research facility. My final week begins today.

Here's a sign that someone recently put up on my office door at the synchrotron:


And yesterday, I was helping archaeologist Elizabeth Robertson with an experiment down on one of the beam lines, and got to re-start the process after the 4:30 p.m. injection of fresh electrons into the storage ring (that's my personal dosimeter badge on my chest):

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