Fieldwork realities

Categories: phd

Tags: interview, Romania, fieldwork, mosquito

Date: 26 July 2007 17:04:32

Today was a bit of a waste of time. I went to do an interview, and the woman I was supposed to be interviewing had the day off. Gah. So I went to see my friends instead, which wasn't a waste of time, though sadly won't be anything I can write up in my thesis! Hopefully tomorrow will be more successful.

Didn't sleep too well last night - first night in a new bed (staying at the school), doing battle with an evil mozzie (it won, though I managed to squish it in the morning, blood everywhere, probably mine). So I spent much of this afternoon asleep to catch up, which means I'll probably not sleep well tonight and then I have to get up stupidly early to catch the bus at 7am. Hopefully I'll get back into a proper sleep pattern in Moldova, though as it's as hot there as it is here I'm not going to hold my breath.

But - stop moaning! Life is good, I've seen friends, I've had an email from my parents which made me happy, and my supervisors have reassured me about my latest panic. So all is good. Now all I need is a snog, but will have to wait for that (less than a month, hopefully!).

Definitely no internetting tomorrow, maybe on Saturday if I can escape the airport for a few hours (I have a long wait between flights). Have fun without me!