Still alive...

I completely lost track of just how long it has been since I last posted something, anything to this humble blog.

So first off let me apologise to anyone out there who has popped by every now and then to check if I have written anything new. I haven't added anything in quite some time and here's why.

As some of you may know, I'm coming to the end of my studies in Business School and things have been really intense. Way back in the earlier part of this year I took and passed my finals and it was such a relief to pass the last exam on the programme.

I think I remember myself then thinking 'great, only the dissertation to complete now'.

Yeah.

Well anyway the small matter of completing the dissertation has turned out to be not quite so trifling at all. It's been a huge piece of work. Partly because of the way I work, and partly because the dissertation has to be completed as a one-person job and those who have been helping you along during the programme all suddenly step away. And of course your life must be factored into the equation too.

So this has been one major time management challenge, the greatest challenge of the time-management type that I can honestly say I've ever faced.

But the good news is I think I might be nearly there. I've been devoting all my spare time to getting it completed since my boys started school in September. It's been a case of getting the notebook computer out every night and chipping away at it.

I've had brilliant support from various people and it's all helped to inch towards the finish line.

I'm at the stage now where I am ready to submit something for an initial review but that's probably not going to happen until early in the new year, what with the way western Europe tends to close down for Christmas.

So that's what's been going on. Instead of blogging and digging up mysterious tid-bits of life, I've been immersing myself in my dissertation and pushing hard to get it done.

I really am looking forward to getting back into some routine writing again but that's secondary just at the moment. As soon as the dissertation is done, and all the edits are made and it's finally accepted (fingers and toes crossed) then life will hopefully get back to something like normal.

if you're one of those people who has stopped by every now and then, thanks for sticking with me through the vacuum. It will soon be over.

Normal service will be resumed as quickly as possible.