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General update
Mar. 9th, 2018 12:03 pmIt's been a while since I posted a general update here. That's fair enough, given it's a sort of scratchpad, but it doesn't do much for building community on this platform, which is something I do actually want to do.
I've been to Jerusalem with a choir that premiered one of my pieces by the River Jordan, which went well. We spent a lot of the trip in occupied Palestine, wishing I'd been able to bring more spending money to buy olive wood carvings or Hebron glass because the people there need all the help they can get.
I've been up to Aberdeen, and walked along the sea front on a day when there was snow, and took over fourteen hours to get home again (it's usually seven and a half, maybe eight and a half if you count getting home from the station once I'm in London) because there were so many sections where we were on a single track due to snow drifts. If I'd known, I could have loaned Network Rail a second snow shovel.
I'm feeling behind on most things, and my chronic health crap is playing up a bit, but when I look back, I have been getting more done the last few weeks than I managed in, say, January. It still doesn't feel like enough, though, which only contributes to the sense of overwhelm.
I am not much further ahead with the MPhil upgrade stuff, and that's potentially a problem. I think what's happening at this stage is that my supervisor would like me to do some more work on it before scheduling a date, and I'm finding it hard to engage with without a firm timeline of proper external deadlines. We had been thinking of doing it in February. Or March. Or April. Now it might be May.
For now, though? I have another supervision on Monday, and a day of travel before then. I'm going to try and tie up some loose ends on existing pieces, as well as compose something short for an assignment. And attempt to make some kind of meaningful dent in the laundry pile, which is still ridiculous. This coming trip is a short one, I'm back to London on Wednesday; and then off to Aberdeen a week later for a much longer trip, one which I hope will offer me a chance to get my teeth into the Whittington responses and actually writing the upgrade paper. I'm staying there for Holy Week and Easter Day and Easter Monday, then beloved and I are off to York for a few days of reconnecting, which I am looking forward to very much indeed.
I've been to Jerusalem with a choir that premiered one of my pieces by the River Jordan, which went well. We spent a lot of the trip in occupied Palestine, wishing I'd been able to bring more spending money to buy olive wood carvings or Hebron glass because the people there need all the help they can get.
I've been up to Aberdeen, and walked along the sea front on a day when there was snow, and took over fourteen hours to get home again (it's usually seven and a half, maybe eight and a half if you count getting home from the station once I'm in London) because there were so many sections where we were on a single track due to snow drifts. If I'd known, I could have loaned Network Rail a second snow shovel.
I'm feeling behind on most things, and my chronic health crap is playing up a bit, but when I look back, I have been getting more done the last few weeks than I managed in, say, January. It still doesn't feel like enough, though, which only contributes to the sense of overwhelm.
I am not much further ahead with the MPhil upgrade stuff, and that's potentially a problem. I think what's happening at this stage is that my supervisor would like me to do some more work on it before scheduling a date, and I'm finding it hard to engage with without a firm timeline of proper external deadlines. We had been thinking of doing it in February. Or March. Or April. Now it might be May.
For now, though? I have another supervision on Monday, and a day of travel before then. I'm going to try and tie up some loose ends on existing pieces, as well as compose something short for an assignment. And attempt to make some kind of meaningful dent in the laundry pile, which is still ridiculous. This coming trip is a short one, I'm back to London on Wednesday; and then off to Aberdeen a week later for a much longer trip, one which I hope will offer me a chance to get my teeth into the Whittington responses and actually writing the upgrade paper. I'm staying there for Holy Week and Easter Day and Easter Monday, then beloved and I are off to York for a few days of reconnecting, which I am looking forward to very much indeed.