So this morning after a very limited conversation with my University (nothing new there), it was agreed because of my lack of ability to pay for my last year, that I defer my dissertation until September 2010. I have to be honest I feel bloody relieved. I have worked so hard in the last two years just to get to this point, then the recession kicks in and us self funding students are put in the position to beg, borrow or steal and we know how the tax payers feel about that right? You would never hear the end of it! (hold on…I am a fucking tax payer?) And the money issue was seriously detracting from questions and critical analysis about Sustainability ..it was all becoming a little too ‘ironic’.
And yes I know I am a wee bit old to be studying and doing odd jobs to survive especially when I have a teenager but she is the reason I’m doing it. Yeah ok and I want to be an intellectual super hero, not those stupid types that wear tights and panse and are usually known as socialists who can only argue with withdrawal of their labor, holding people who need those services to ransom with a picket line (I hate that with a passion) or indeed those mongs that become an MP just to fund their kudos and of which shall be known as the capitalist parasites….no! I mean I want to be one of the thousands that get unmentioned working frontline in post conflict or climatically damaged areas, obsequious enough for you?
It’s hard to put my studies down …I love studying. I can not tell you how much I love to pick up a book and find something new to struggle with, interpret, define and then wake up with my head on my laptop with crisps hanging out my nose just to be awarded that glowing moment when you actually get a theory and then have the audacity to challenge it. For a person like me to have to put that down for a couple of months is comparable to NOTHING!!! But at least it gives me time to find a permanent (well only in their eyes) job, and talk to my newly found research University in France CIRAD I can not explain how many multiples I am having with this find. Why am I telling you this?
It should be obvious….
I’m back !!
