I am typing this on my new (well, new to me) thinkpad computer... thanks Dad! It was bought for thesis-writing but a very good toy all the same! I really feel like a postgraduate student now.Which doesn't mean to say I'm getting very far with the thesis. The other day my supervisor told me it was time to stop revising my research proposal and start writing the thesis. Hmmm. Easier said than done really. However I have to say, in my defense, that I am a little more focused now. At present I am concentrating on my "methodology"- that is, how I'm actually going to do this. If I can start to get that sorted I can start to make some contact with agencies in Honduras- really start making plans. Of course it would also help if we had some money to book tickets (the thinkpad was cheap...!)- I'm still waiting on scholarship applications. I guess if it doesn't work out there's always night duty at Palmerston North hospital... but thats not a particularily favoured option!
Luis is already up to his eyeballs in study- we expected the workload to be heavy this semester and it is, but he seems to be enjoying most of it and is certainly leaning heaps. We also expected some interesting conversations and we have had some- from feminist critique of TV advertising to the role of the UN. On a more prosaic note his team won thier first indoor soccer match of the year 3-nil (Luis got 2 of the goals), which made him very happy.
Anyway it is now nearly midnight and this is second time I've typed this (not my new computer I'm sure, the post seemed to get lost somewhere between here and the Paradise server)... so I think it's time to put my new baby computer and myself to bed. 'Night all.