phd Archive
27 Oct
Grey
If a feeling could be a colour, grey it would be, post-submission. Not terrible blackness! Not joyous white or refreshing sky blue, but that grey, cloudy colour that signals inertia, an in-between state of the post-PhD emotional world. I think this feeling is to the fore because in between the submission and the viva is
13 Oct
Submitting
I finally submitted my thesis yesterday, having first submitted it to my supervisor for corrections. Actually, that submission, in hindsight, was more significant than the one to registry. My supervisor congratulated me on the work, on having put together this body of research and for the slog. He was even looking forward to reading the
16 Jul
Balancing
I have been somewhat in blog hibernation, writing and editing the thesis. I have been very fortunate to have been ‘donated’ a holiday home in the Wexford countryside where I can be out of the city and have no distractions other than wild birds and more recently, a poorly hedgehog to tend to. My routine