I'm a Post-Doctoral Research Associate now at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in an astrobiology lab working on the potential for life on Mars and the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, both on if it could exist and how one would find it with a robot.
So far this year I've been to California to present at the Astrobiology conference, and just recently to Spain for a workshop sponsored by NASA
that would be my first cousin who is in line to be an astronaut on the first Mars mission.
OMG did I get screwed over in the brains department.