Update
Well, I can't believe I've been absent from LJ from Christmas eve until now....that's like, 3 months or something stupid like that.
Since then I've been locked in various book-lined rooms in 2 countries drafting my thesis. I now have a complete 1st draft including appendices! It's like, 400 pages long. I still have a shed load of work to do in the next 4 months before handing in....so I shall probably be absent some more until then.
Anyhow, in 'life-stuff' I'm also planning what to do after PhD.
Japan trip will be probably next spring...so that's a whole year away :-(
The reason it will take me that long is because I have all the PhD stuff to wrap up, and then graduation etc.
I will also in between all that be going to Bulgaria in September to do a course on restoring an curating Ancient Greek pottery. I also might be nipping over to Turkey. I'm a menber of the BIAA (British Institute at Ankara) which is an archaeological research institute focusing on Turkey and the Black Sea region. I'm hoping I will be able to do some volunteering with them for a few weeks, doing something useful while I detox from PhD!
So that's all I've been up to.
not much I realize, but that's what it's like just now.
Oh, and check out my friend's (adopted baby brother more like!) blog www.cupcakewarrior.co.uk
He's posted awesome cupcake and muffin recipes......many of which I've been present for the taste test!
Seriously yummy. He even invented a mint Aero cupcake specially for me :-)
I've known him ever since I moved to Edinburgh almost 10 years ago when we were all so young and silly and student-y......
Good times.
Since then I've been locked in various book-lined rooms in 2 countries drafting my thesis. I now have a complete 1st draft including appendices! It's like, 400 pages long. I still have a shed load of work to do in the next 4 months before handing in....so I shall probably be absent some more until then.
Anyhow, in 'life-stuff' I'm also planning what to do after PhD.
Japan trip will be probably next spring...so that's a whole year away :-(
The reason it will take me that long is because I have all the PhD stuff to wrap up, and then graduation etc.
I will also in between all that be going to Bulgaria in September to do a course on restoring an curating Ancient Greek pottery. I also might be nipping over to Turkey. I'm a menber of the BIAA (British Institute at Ankara) which is an archaeological research institute focusing on Turkey and the Black Sea region. I'm hoping I will be able to do some volunteering with them for a few weeks, doing something useful while I detox from PhD!
So that's all I've been up to.
not much I realize, but that's what it's like just now.
Oh, and check out my friend's (adopted baby brother more like!) blog www.cupcakewarrior.co.uk
He's posted awesome cupcake and muffin recipes......many of which I've been present for the taste test!
Seriously yummy. He even invented a mint Aero cupcake specially for me :-)
I've known him ever since I moved to Edinburgh almost 10 years ago when we were all so young and silly and student-y......
Good times.