Part of it was personal, most of it was professional.
The short version is: I had been offered a PhD position back in England that would start this year, but not enough to funding to take it, and so declined/deferred. As much as I wanted to do it, it just couldn't happen financially. It would be a lifetime of debt with no support. At times like this you think: Man, where are those lottery winnings when you need them.
I keep telling myself it was the smart choice, as I already have a job I actually like, but since then I've been wrestling with whether it was the right move. A discussion took place over coffee with an old professor (Jo Feb will know him - It was Dr. B.) while he was in town and he advised that while an architect can be both a practitioner and a theorist, it's not a common route, so I had to expect some bumps along the way. Maybe the lack of money was one of the bumps.
So since another round of funding submissions are months away, I figured, screw it. Let's buckle down and get on this registration thing taken care of. But first. Let's do what I always do when confronted with disappointment: run away.
This summer has been a bit of traveling, with more in store. 3 weddings, 2 baby showers and a couple of birthdays in between. Meaning this is the first weekend I've had to do nothing in months. It is glorious.
But all of that was in preparation for the next two weeks, which will consist of the following:
1) Flying to Hawaii to visit my twin brother
2) Learning to play the Ukulele on a beach while he goes to work
3) Taking a week with said brother to fly to Bangkok for food
4) Hiring out a tuktuk for an adventure up the river Kwai
5) Hanging out with Tigers, snakes
6) Begin the return home, with a brief stop in India along the way
Will keep this blog posted on adventures, observations and off-tune notes.
