Long time no see – and merry Christmas
by Benjamin on December 19, 2009
“Finally the holidays are here – now we can all get some work done.” This was the first thing my supervisor told me many years ago, and it is a sentiment strangely, perhaps cruelly, reflecting reality in academia. The suggested undertone that teaching isn’t really work is one I disagree with, but a diatribe on teaching is not my intent here, rather it is to declare – happily – that the blog will once more be running on full steam: The thesis is in a reasonable shape and the new job’s learning curve has flattened out, and with the holidays upon us there is once more time for the real work: Blogging.
There is much to catch up on, but for the moment I just want to wish everyone a merry Christmas and suggest a very nice piece in the X-mas Economist out this week on ‘Progress and its Perils‘ (generously available for free) on how good we actually have it, despite our search for positional goods.
