It's not that I don't love you any more...
...it's just that work is taking up way too much time these days. I fell victim to higher education turmoil last year when I was made redundant by my former university, and although I've been able to continue working for the research unit I've been with for the last ten years, I'm now employed by a different university on short term research contracts. I worked as a contract researcher years ago and, now as then, it involves silly amounts of work, precarious contracts and continually submitting proposals for every scrap of funding available. We've been quite successful in securing funding but it's a lot of work and it doesn't leave much time for anything else. Added to that, one of the projects I'm working on is based in the US so most evening are spent on conference calls with colleagues on the other side of the pond, rather than writing about navyboys. I'll leave you to decide what I'd rather be doing :} Aaaanyway, I shouldn't really complain, I'm still getting paid after all and that's something to be thankful for. Also we're off camping for a few days over the weekend so that'll be a nice break :) So, apologies for being rather scarce around these parts and for being slow to reply to posts and comments, I haven't forgotten you guys!
