La Lingua

• June 2020 3 years ago Oh June.You were a month and a half.It certainly felt like it, at least.The line And you were brokenhearted and the world was too has just come to me - which is of course, from the song June. Which I didn't think of during actual June. But there you go.We lost my Grandad this month. Very suddenly,...
• May 2020 3 years ago Working...I feel that these posts may be a little more repetitive than originally intended. Work has been better this month, I've been finding it more manageable now that I've had some open conversations with my line manager and team. PhD work is plodding along... I find that by the time I reach...
• April 2020 3 years ago This month I've been...Taking some time off...As mentioned in my last post, I've been really feeling the pressure at work lately. I took some time off the other week to try and recharge. It worked - but now I really, really don't want to go back again! I'm finding working from home really difficult...
• March 2020 4 years ago A photo from that one time we tried to go for a bike ride and somebody got a flat tyre... but hey, have you ever seen Tower Bridge that empty?!Well.This month, I have been...WorkingSince December, I have been optimistically declaring (on an approximately weekly basis) that "my current workload is...
• February 2020 4 years ago Note: this was mainly written before the COVID-19 outbreak escalated in Europe... I am looking back at it now with nostalgia. How different March's update will be.This month I have been...Working.Jesus Christ, it feels like I haven't done anything except work. It turns out that part-time PhDs are a...

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