Sunday 17 March 2013

Like a Phoenix

Although I have never actually died, for a couple of months this blog almost died but today I decided to resuscitate it and bring it back to life.  You see, whilst writing a 300+ page Ph.D. thesis, going home and actually sitting in front of a word-processor style application (such as a blogging tool) is almost a masochistic event.  But that is now the past, at least for the time being, and so here I am!

It is a quiet Sunday evening, bringing to an end one rather uneventful weekend, except the recollection of last weekend's brief trip to Malta and back.  And another 'successful' completion of another one of my Malta series acrylic paintings, which I am posting hereunder, quite literally for the sake of illustration.  

Since moving from Ealing back to South Kensington, much has happened in these few months, and I will try to catch up with the backlog, but very briefly, these were the highlights:

July 2012: Trip to Marrakesh, Morocco (follow-up later definitely required)
August 2012: The London 2012 Olympics, 'Taming of the Shrew' at the Globe, summer break at Malta
September 2012: Went up the Centre Point Tower, last Freshers' Week at Imperial
October 2012: Started the last year of my 20s
November 2012: Visited the Eden Project, first experimentation with the aforementioned acrylic painting, started writing-up
December 2012: First draft of thesis completed, lived through 12/12/12, first (and last) attempt at ice-skating, first hand at poker, first decent trip to Malta in ages (3 week long and with plenty of 'intellectually-inspiring' events)
January 2013: Last month at Imperial and enjoying student status, started following a 9 week long electoral campaign, attended a Joseph Calleja concert (in London), completed my thesis
February 2013: Submitted my thesis and started working as a research fellow at the University of Surrey, Pope Benedict XVI resigns
March 2013: Flew to Malta for 65 hours to cast a vote (well, 2), saw a change in government, flew back to London, Pope Francis is elected

Until the next one...

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