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Date: 29 August 2002 09:45:00
it is going to be all right. I got on the course.
arrived home from greenbelt at about 1030pm tuesday having visited a few friends on the way back. All weekend i had 3am type nights and 9am type mornings, was weary indeed. Checked email to see if anything had come through about the course to discover i had an interveiw on wednesday at midday. Went to bed. Got up. Attended for interview, woefully underprepared and still too tired... anyway, the interview went all right as they go and 20 mins later i got the call. Due to tiredness and general disorientation the whole experience was quite surreal.
I look back over the last year and realise that i genuinely had no clue where it was all going, but it falls out better than i could devise (that's a shakespeare quote; despite my recent forays into the city planning region of the academic world, english is still my first love... however, i can't for the life of me remember who said it or in what play. it might be hamlet. during finals i had a mission to get a hamlet quote into every essay. i think i did it but i forget; it was the thought that counted. bless.)
so now it's sewn up, kind of, and that would make me feel claustrophobic apart from i really want to do all the things i'm going to be doing. this is my diary for the next x months:
september: work 1 day a week on hmmm kind of just about enough money sort of (not really but never mind eh, i can sort the house out)
october-december: 2.5 days a week, attend lectures in social science research methods in cardiff - on two of the days, stay in cardiff into the evening to work. the theory is don't bring the work home with you. We'll see. 1 day a week, work. Do 3 modules (60 credits) of LBC distance learning in my 'spare' time. One of these will be as part of a group from linden, which will be lovely. strictly speaking a group from linden plus tracy (or 'mrs wood' if you like)which will be very lovely indeed.
jan-may:2.5 days a week, as before. Work will have come to an end, and the theory is that i will do my dissertation during that time.
late may - end sept 2003: the funding for the course extends to this time. This is because the nice people at the ESRC/ODPM who are kindly paying me to study are paying me for a calender year so that from may-sept i can 'do my dissertation'. However, I will cheekily have already done it by May, leaving me with a tidy little income for 4 and a bit months. So this is where i TRAVEL.
Aug 2003: turn 30 and go to greenbelt (which is also turning 30. i do think greenbelt twins should get in free).
oct 2003-june 2004: go theology hunting at LBC.
so if you need to get in touch with me over the next two years, that is where i'll be.