Dear all!
I just wanted to write a quick message because I have not been sharing much lately. In my last message on New Year’s Eve, I told you about my plans for 2018. This was right before, while cooking dinner, I seriously cut my left middle finger, to an extent that I had to go to the hospital and even today I am still typing with 9 fingers. (Not that the finger had to come off! – I just lost feeling in the tip which makes typing quite difficult..).
Also, I realized that I have a tendency of sharing only the good news around the research. Of course, especially since most of you also financially supported the research, I want to show you that your money is being put to good use! But in the interest of sharing, I would like to share both successes and failures more. So here’s January’s ups and downs:
Ups
- teaching philosophy of law at the university of Hasselt for the first time
- writing a first draft of a plan for a “society-engaged research platform” and finding others who are interested
- rounding off the Marble project with all 5 students in a really positive way
- getting more of a hang of my new role as PhD representative
- sent in an article on legal orders in CAR and did not get a negative reply back (yet)
Downs
- scheduled three media interviews about the case study in CAR, did two and so far only one seems to get published..
- had a difficult work conflict, that kept me up quite a few nights and made me feel very small
- started teaching logic to MA lawyers, also for the first time – it seems to be going well, but I do feel quite insecure about it..
- starting to feel stressed out about whether or not I will be able to stay in academia after the PhD
If you are not already, please follow the project’s Facebook page for regular, shorter updates..!
