Clear out

I’ve finally finished handing over the membership secretary position of the UK Shareholders’ Association, posting down the last batch of paperwork earlier this week. I enjoyed the role as it was flexible in terms of time and I was interested in the organisation’s work anyway, but it took up just a bit too much time to run it in parallel with my full time job and bits of freelance work.

The next big clear out will involve taking all my research papers to the recycling bin once I’ve (hopefully!) been awarded my MPhil in a few months. At the moment these are spread throughout my lounge in various piles such as ‘papers to cite’ and ‘references to chase up’. In fact, my flat basically consists of enormous amounts of paper, in the form of books and printouts, with a couple of pieces of furniture hiding amongst them.

In terms of my thesis, I now have three chapters (out of a total of six) provisionally approved, to the point where my supervisor has said that he will only need to look at them again once the whole thing has been put together. The analysis is still going slowly, and I’m slightly annoyed that the book on gnuplot which I was hoping to buy has had its release date back put back by two months, but I have the bank holiday weekend to work on that. Perhaps by the end of May I’ll be in a position to submit…