Interactive Documentary » kids http://www.interactivedocumentary.net If you want to find out more about interactive documentaries you will find here an archive of existing new media documentaries and a blog that will keep you up to date with what I find interesting while doing my PhD on this topic. You can also participate to the site by sending interactive documentary projects you know about and by joining the on line discussions. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:25:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 back to work http://www.interactivedocumentary.net/2011/09/02/back-to-work/ http://www.interactivedocumentary.net/2011/09/02/back-to-work/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:26:21 +0000 Sandra http://www.interactivedocumentary.net/?p=918 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 but just “be”…

The price to pay is the coming back. I should be excited about all the things I have to do but they look alien to me at the moment… I am in a no-zone, like if I was detached from everything. Going from 35 degrees to 15 also means I have a terrible cold. So I am back and sick. Feels terrible….

I am sure that in a week or so I will be back in the rhythm of things. Once I am in the water I know how to swim… but I hate cold water… so I am wondering what I am doing in London! What I have learned during those holidays is how one can re-invent herself all the time. I love what I do… and yet, I could do something completely different. I suppose I love a lot of things… I’ll keep this as a positive note and try to feel lucky about the world of possibilities that are around me. Everything is in the glance… half full, half empty… I am lucky my daughter wakes up with a smile every morning… it fills my day…

]]> http://www.interactivedocumentary.net/2011/09/02/back-to-work/feed/ 0 back from hols http://www.interactivedocumentary.net/2009/09/14/back-from-hols/ http://www.interactivedocumentary.net/2009/09/14/back-from-hols/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:14:41 +0000 Sandra http://www.interactivedocumentary.net/?p=424 It is September, I had a lovely month of family holidays… now back to work!

The thing with having kids is that they are constantly on holidays!!! Believe it or not I find it very hard to swing from holiday mood  to working mood every 6 weeks (which is on average how often the kids have a break from school). One side of me believes it is incredibly civilised to have so many breaks and to remember that there are others things in life than work, school runs and house organisation… but the other side of me finds it very painful to switch between completely different lives all the time.

I suppose that working from home does not help. When the kids are on hols they are there: right in front of me waiting for me to take the lead.  Shall we go to the park? Shall we paint? Can we have a play-date? I might be limited but I find it impossible to do my PhD work while my kids are painting in the kitchen and probably messing up all the walls of the house… call me a control freak, but I am either with them or at my desk working… I can’t do both together… The good news is that when they will grow up they will NOT want me to organise their day… but we have time for that…

So here I am: kids are back at school and I have 6 weeks in front of me to try to remember what my PhD was about. Probably by the time I will have remembered the kids will be on holiday again!

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