As March Goes Marching By

Apologies for the long delay in posting! I was incredibly busy with my proposal and moving house in February, and have been dealing with the aftermath of those things for most of March. That makes it sound like things are bad, which they aren't.

My proposal was a sucess, sort of. My theory and critique of the literature wowed and amazed my colleagues, but my methodology sparked a rather heated debate amongst my panel, the result of which was that I had to change it. That happened at the beginning of the month and I have been working to figure out how best to go about doing some very complicated and multifascited research. Yesterday I emailed my supervisors my proposed methodology...the response to which was "let's meet on Monday." Everyone is very busy with the IASSCS conference only a couple weeks away, so that is an understandable response, though I would have appreciated some inkling about if they were happy with my justification or not. I suppose I could just ask them. At any rate, I know what I want to do and why I want to do it and why it is the best way to go about doing my research, and I'm not taking no for an answer.

I am all moved in and settled into my new place and really enjoying it. It's a lot smaller than my previous place, but the layout of the place is a lot more practical. I was worried my new housemae and I would be on top of one another, but that hasn't been an issue, other than when we both try to make breakfast at the same time, but we manage. Living with a boy has been, well, different. It's definitely taken some adjusting. On the whole though I am enjoying the change. We have very different outlooks on the world, and I'm enjoying challenging his views. ;) I make up for it in baked goods and coffee and that seems to be an exceptable balance.

I can still hardly believe that I'll be back in Calgary in just over 2 weeks. I'm looking forward to catching up with friends and family again, and I'm really looking forward to my vacation from my vacation in Hawaii! To be honest, I have mixed feelings about returning to Calgary and I am glad that it is just for a visit. I don't ever plan to live there again as living there always made me deeply unhappy. I don't consider Calgary to be home anymore -- Melbourne is my home. But Calgary is where I am from, and will always be a part of who I am and I'm not interested in denying that.