I am pleased to announce that I have received confirmation that my job contact at Heriot Watt will be extended. I had previously only been set to work through the end of September. Now I will be continuing through the end of the ECHOES project, in mid-November. Of course, I am sure that dealing with final reporting and working on publications will eat into the first few months of my PhD...
I am really pleased that I will have a chance to see the project through to the end. By "really pleased" I actually mean that I would have been devastated to leave without some sense of closure on the whole thing, and without helping to tie up some of the most important loose ends. I have never been involved in a single project for this much of my time over such a long period of time (a year and a half already!), and it really has a strong emotional grip on me. Having little choice but to leave before the end would probably have been like an unfortunate breakup, except that the awkward talk over coffee would go along the lines of "it's not you, it's me and my nearly empty budget." Fortunately, we never have to have that talk, ECHOES and I-- instead, the project in its current iteration will die soon, and I can be left with 'fond' memories. And hopefully publications!
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