For those who haven’t heard, I’m leaving for the United States in two weeks’ time to begin a PhD in New Haven, Connecticut (a state whose name I've just learned to spell!). Since the programme is set to last five or six years, I thought it might be worthwhile to start a blog to keep friends and family at home up to speed with my activities.* Feel free to tune in at any time and, of course, provide comments. I anticipate writing mainly about fun and games (detailed posts on long days holed up in the library will be avoided!). But reflections on politics, books I’m reading, and more existential matters are also bound to make the odd appearance. Overall I hope you might find the blog entertaining, and perhaps occasionally a little thought-provoking.
Please stay in touch. And travellers to the East Coast, beware: you’ll have your arms twisted into paying me prolonged visits whenever you pass through from Boston to New York City!
*For the idea I'm indebted to Thornton Thompson, who's done pretty much the same thing during his MPhil here at Cambridge: http://thorntonpondcrossing.blogspot.com/
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