It's been a while since I've turned to the blogosphere, but as I managed to write around 12,000 words over the Christmas holidays, I don't think I had any words left to give to this blog (or to use in conversation - just ask my housemates/parents/Julius about my complete inability to make any sense for the last few weeks).
However, everything is in, hand-in #1 last Thursday (3 essays) was celebrated with an impromptu 15-mile bike ride up the York-Selby Solar System route. Well, once you get to Jupiter you might as well go all the way to Neptune, right? The only problem being that you then have to turn around and head back. Against the wind. I fell victim to cramp at Venus but luckily Tesco was within limping distance, so all in all, lactic acid overload notwithstanding, I enjoyed myself greatly after being cooped up for so long. The temperature across the country then dropped by about 10 degrees (no joke...), which motivated me to finish off the last essay and hand that in this Monday. No endorphins for me this time though, 2 hours later I was in my first lecture of the new Spring teaching term. No rest for this Master's student.
As I may have already mentioned though, I have high hopes for this term, with a lot of syntax and a burgeoning feeling of actually achieving something in my near future. However, this comes with quite a high time- and effort-cost; I've already read upwards of 150 pages of journal articles and book chapters, not to mention the 50-odd question ethics form, replete with information sheets, consent forms and example test items, which needs completing, checking and submitting by
3rd February.
Welcome into 2012. You're not going to see much of it, but you'll be blimmin' busy.
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