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... well, it seems I've made it - now on, I can attach a nice ", PhD" to my name on welfare application forms. So yes, I've been totally missing in action over the last months for some reason - writing my dissertation (made it to exactly 93 pages, cheers please), proof-checking and writing parts of it again (while keeping it to 93 pages, more cheers please), forcing my tutor at gunpoint to (at least) pretend reading it, and keeping up with unexpected deviantArt popularity on the side.
Now, the quest for a decent job in the field is about to start. Doesn't look so hard: from what I've seen, there's already quite a few interesting positions I could apply for all over Europe, as well as some here in Italy too - the main difference is, scientific job positions in Italy tend to suffer from a severe (if not total) lack of wage and benefits. Ghgh.
After defending my dissertation I've spent a few vacation days in Rome with dolma33 - or so we'd planned, save the utterly malignant lurgi that kept me stuck into a lousy hotel room for the best part of the week, while making the rest a nose-dripping sneezing shivering hell.
If nothing else, I've had time enough to watch electoral talk shows on tv and totally reconsider my intentions. I'd planned not voting this time out of mere loathing (a point I'd never got to before). Well, talk shows duly reminded me what it felt like to watch Berlusconi and his accolades on the loose, everywhere, every fucking minute of every fucking day - save this time it'd be going to be longer, harder and with more studs. Mmmh no fucking way. I may not particularly appreciate any of his opponents, but if there's one chance (no matter how irrelevant) for abstention to favour Berlusconi's rise, it's something I prefer not to be held liable for. Don't need five more years under a third world excuse of a dictatorship to figure out solid reasons why I hate it here, thank you.