Listen to your friends.
Lately, friends of mine have been giving me lots of advice. 
On various things. But mainly how to behave as an almost-30-something-single-gal. 
The end result has been that my self-confidence has gone through the roof. Hopefully not quite to the point of arrogance. But it’s left me feeling pretty good about at least 5 of my 7 selves. 
So, to those people who have contributed to this new smiley Rach, I wanted to say a big phanx. 
In other stories, I think I have finally got into the swing of this whole PhD lark. 
At least, I’ve been reading stuff. And highlighting stuff. And listening to talks on stuff. And even taking notes. Can’t be much more to it than that surely?! 
I also moved desk so I am no longer staring at walls/facebook with my mind elsewhere but am instead surrounded by clever, hard-working people who I hope are contagious. We will see. 
Tomorrow I’ll start ‘teaching’. I’m not sure whether me, all of my selves or the students should be more afraid. Again, we will see. 
Finally, I went to my first Greek lesson of the term last night. Which will, incidentally, be my last Greek lesson of the term. 
It was supposed to be a level 3 class. It began with the teacher (I use that term loosely) asking us if we knew the alphabet. And progressed to us ‘learning’ the numbers from 1-10. 
Given that I was revising all 629 possible endings of the past-plu-perfect-continuous-future tense of the reflexive verbs in order to be prepared for my lesson, this wasn’t quite the level I was hoping for. 
Looks like my retirement to that Greek island will have to wait a while. Probably for the best. That’ll give me time to get this PhD won’t it…
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