Posts Tagged holiday
back to work
It has been a very loooooonnnngggg holiday indeed… when I came back home I had forgotten it’s layout! How strange to re-discover your own place!!! Anyhow, I have enjoyed 4 weeks of pure bliss with my kids and family around France. It is incredible how life can be easy when one has nothing to do [...]
un-achieved plans versus holidays
Last few days of work before a long summer holiday with my family. I feel a little guilty about such a long break, because I am conscious that my PhD has not progressed very much lately… I have been too busy reading my MA student’s dissertations and trying to re-launch the i-docs.org website. There you [...]
back from Easter break
i-Docs has been a great experience – we had so much feed-back after it, and people were so enthusiastic!- but it has also been quite draining… so, for once, I was really pleased that the kids “obliged” me to take an Easter break! We just went to Rome (my home town) and enjoyed family and country [...]
Interruption
I have been away for a long easter break and I need to go back to work as quickly as possible! The problem is that once I get out of the mood, and full immersion, of writing it takes me a good week to get back into it… oh gosh… going on holidays is great, [...]
I am in rest mode
That’s it: the June panel went very well and I got the upgrade (which basically means that the structure and argument of my PhD got accepted by an expernal board). I was delighted and really boosted up by the positive approach that the external examinator had during the discussion: he pointed out at things to [...]