February 10th

It’s been a while. With good reason, I might add.

I have been so busy ‘doing’ to have any time to ‘reflect’. And I don’t really have much time to reflect now but I would like to give a little bit of an update.

Despite all the physical and mental health problems I have been experiencing, and still am, I have been academically awesome. Not always. But definitely enough to get me by and through on to the next things.

The next things are: the final BMAG workshop, specifically the collaboration for researchers; my article that will be published in April/May time; my networking with all the tutors I can possibly befriend and talk history with; my collaboration with the museums about last year’s summer research; my second summer research, this time into the Soho Insurance Society; my Global History masters course; my potential year out afterwards to go do research in South Africa on the 1820s settlers funded by mike?!; my PhD!!!!!!

So I have gone on a bit forward in time, and now I need to rein it back in, especially because I missed a lot of things from the above list which are also up and coming.

Like my dissertation. But in fairness, I am in the middle of that, nearly the end so it can hardly be thought of as a ‘next’ thing. It is actually going well, and I am not lying about that. I am happy with where it is going, and if I can sustain my pace I will get there on time.

I know I have a habit of being terrible with deadlines, but I will meet my own personal deadline for this: 1st March, full draft. Gives me the whole of reading week to get on with it, and then will give me over 2 weeks to add edits when I can.

I love being an historian. I could write more but I really just want to get on with my dissertation, I will reflect after that is done because ending projects is a good time for reflection.