Today is the first day of my PhD in Aegean Archaeology. While I have been virtuously focussing on my actual topic for the last three months or so, I - perversely(?) - spent today writing an article on an entirely different matter for an academic journal. Hence I am now almost blind and the article is not finished at all. I want to get it out of the way however, in order to finish - at least temporarily - with that particular subject and get back to my PhD topic. Perhaps I will find that I can end up doing both: researching my PhD and ocassionally foraying into academic article-land with non-PhD-related articles. Of course I will have to write journal articles on my PhD subject as well. It looks like I will have the time to do so. The last six years of exertion toward my university work means that I received an Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship and can therefore do my PhD full time. Studying for a living, can you think of anything better than that?
4 comments:
Congratulations and best of luck to you! I indeed can hardly think of anything better than that. =)
That's great. What is your subject? The fresco hints at an art historical focus....
Wow, I can't believe people are looking at my blog!, but am glad that they are. Judith, my subject is 'The Cultic Life of Trees: What trees say about people in the prehistoric Aegean, Cyprus and Israel.' Yep, that's pretty weird sounding, but Louise thinks its a fine topic. That's just the initial title, I'm sure it will change to a certain extent when I've done the literature review and worked some more stuff out about it.
Hi Caroline
Congratulations on your scholarship. And you topic sounds really interesting.
Emma
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