I wish this second update was a more cheerful one, filled with exciting adventures and collaborations. Doing so, however, would not be the truth of this month. The truth of this month, and last month actually (although I wasn’t ready to write about it yet), is far more painful.
I have been a research fellow at The University of Manchester for 23 days now. They have been 23 big days, a lot has happened, but at the same time they have flown by. On Tuesday, I attended an induction for my fellowship cohort, and it was made clear that this momentum would continue, because it always does in academia. As it will fly by, and as I am no longer employed on an ERC-funded grant where once a month I fill in time sheets where I outline my achievements that month, I have decided I’m going to try and document the process in this far less official form. One blog entry a month, for the next three years. It might be too optimistic, but I am an optimist.