Yes, it has. To be honest, not much has been going on, I’ve just been rehabbing my knee, working towards my first hand-ins and reading literature!

Supervisor meeting went OK yesterday, but now I realise the step-up from Master’s level; just the sheer detail, accuracy and consistency with which you have to write.

I’m kind of thinking there is so much to edit on this first essay that it’s almost like flogging a dead horse. From the outset I wrote from a ‘master’s’ mentality and not a ‘professional researcher’ one.

Anyway, just started new essay on nationalism now which is always fun; Anderson, Gellner, Hobsbawm, Smith, Kedourie, Reid, etc.

As for spare time, well…not much! Just combining gym with swimming and whatever nights out I can still enjoy guilt-free! Though off to Barcelona at Easter so can let off some steam then.

I’ll check in more often this year to make up for three months’ of absence!

Ta for now x