Yoo's World

My fiancee and I just got our couple rings, which we had ordered in the week before I flew off to West Point. They'll probably be our de facto wedding rings, since the official rings may be a bit too fancy to wear comfortably all the time. This is the reason we got them, after all. It's also a good excuse for me to have no compunction about wearing mine all the time already when the wedding is still months away. (Good thing I'm writing this and not making a video statement, otherwise my goofy grin would embarrass me.)

I'm heading out on a flight to West Point tomorrow for the Workshop on Network Science, where I'll be making a presentation and participating in a panel. Under normal circumstances, this would be funded as part of the work of a research project. However, the funding has to be approved by the higher-ups in my institute, and unfortunately, certain recent events have made it impossible for the higher-ups to approve anything for a while.

I had gone to the Seoul Digital Forum this week. Given that I was part of the audience during a couple of the sessions that were broadcast live on the television station SBS, there is a negligible chance that my face appeared in the broadcast, but that isn't the exciting part.

I don't usually talk about my really private stuff in public, but this is a major event that seems to deserve an announcement of sorts, even though I won't divulge any details: I'm engaged.

I'm back from Innsbruck, Austria, where I had a great time. The experience was certainly much better than I expected, considering I spent almost no time in planning any sightseeing because I was more preoccupied with preparing for the conference. I do feel the need to say this: even if you don't know how to ski, you definitely want to pay a visit to one of the ski resorts and take a lift up to a peak, where you will have your breath taken away by the sights.