Sautumn
Apologies, apologies. “Write blog entry about what happened in July” is top of my job list and has been since… the end of July. As it happens, most of July this year, as far as I can recall it, was taken up with finding somewhere to live. Unfortunately I was low in the ballot at New College and the pressure was on to make the switch to living out. This meant an exhaustive search of flats in North Oxford, being messed around by letting agents, and finally settling on the thirteenth flat I viewed.
The transition to living-out was interesting enough. Finally leaving student rooms to live in a ‘home’ for the first time in seven years has to be considered progress. As does a washing machine that doesn’t require the insertion of coins in order for it to work, a sofa, and sharing a kitchen with fewer than six people. Alas full-time maintenance and cleaning staff were lost in the bargain.
In terms of summer holidays, I made a brief trip to Normandy with Hilary. We stayed at Mum and Dad’s house and although the weather wasn’t great we managed a fair few barbecues and got out a bit. I really can’t remember what happened in August, I guess I was unpacking. Who knows.
September must have been wildly exciting, my diary seems to list four dinners, three lunches, a house warming and a careers fair. In between which I think I primarily occupied myself with finishing my thesis. Or at least trying to. I came dangerously close and emailed my supervisor asking for a meeting to discuss my conclusions and he suggested I should write another research chapter.
Since then I’ve got caught up in the whirlwind of term as new students have arrived in the group, teaching has resumed, random bits of consultancy appeared and time seems to slip away. Still, I can’t complain. I’m still funded and I have time to think about what my next move is – post Oxon. I’m still pondering that question, although there’s progressively less time to do stuff about it at the moment.
I think that’s about all for now. I can now schedule a reminder for a blog post at the start of December...
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The transition to living-out was interesting enough. Finally leaving student rooms to live in a ‘home’ for the first time in seven years has to be considered progress. As does a washing machine that doesn’t require the insertion of coins in order for it to work, a sofa, and sharing a kitchen with fewer than six people. Alas full-time maintenance and cleaning staff were lost in the bargain.
In terms of summer holidays, I made a brief trip to Normandy with Hilary. We stayed at Mum and Dad’s house and although the weather wasn’t great we managed a fair few barbecues and got out a bit. I really can’t remember what happened in August, I guess I was unpacking. Who knows.
September must have been wildly exciting, my diary seems to list four dinners, three lunches, a house warming and a careers fair. In between which I think I primarily occupied myself with finishing my thesis. Or at least trying to. I came dangerously close and emailed my supervisor asking for a meeting to discuss my conclusions and he suggested I should write another research chapter.
Since then I’ve got caught up in the whirlwind of term as new students have arrived in the group, teaching has resumed, random bits of consultancy appeared and time seems to slip away. Still, I can’t complain. I’m still funded and I have time to think about what my next move is – post Oxon. I’m still pondering that question, although there’s progressively less time to do stuff about it at the moment.
I think that’s about all for now. I can now schedule a reminder for a blog post at the start of December...
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