I've Been Neglecting You. Part I

Wow!

Wow!

It's been 10 months since I last updated my blog. That is SLACKING!

It's been a crazy (in a good way) year for me. This time last year I was sitting at home in Holland, my dreams of doing an awesome internship at the Clinton Foundation were shattered, my plans of moving back to the UK were on hold, it was a testing time. But testing times are why box sets, movies and Mad Men reruns were invented. With the support of my amazing brother Daniel and my super-dad- Dad, I think I had a pretty rewarding year. I may not have advanced professionally, but spiritually and personally it was a blessing. 

Fast forward to January 2012, I'm sitting on a couch, playing with a little child in a little house in a little village in western Germany. The kid is transfixed by The Gruffalo playing on the TV, so I take the time to check my e-mail. I see this:

Dear Julian, 

Thank you for your application to the role of Consumer PR Internship (CWCONINT12a) recieved 23 Dec 2011. We would like to invite you to discuss the role further at our main site in London:

I felt like this inside

But I wasn't in my own home, so I couldn't let the full crazy excitement out, so I just did this:

That e-mail was from Cohn & Wolfe, London. Pretty big deal in UK and Global Public Relations. I had recieved rejections or no replies from other companies I had applied to, so when I got this e-mail I knew I had to grab the bull by the horns (or is it balls?..anyway, I knew I had to be on my GRIND)

Three days later I was saying goodbye to my Dad and Bro, heading on a flight from Amsterdam to London and reading up on 'How to ace an interview'. 

I had a week of solid preparation, lots of advice and prayers from friends and family, and a lot of sleep! Then the day arrived, put on my suit (looked like a black Don Draper) and headed off to Cohn & Wolfe towers to GET THAT JOB!!!......and did I get it? You BETCHA!

Part II coming soon (Wimbledon break)

Let's Get The Proceedings Proceeding This Evening

I've been neglecting you dear blog, but I'm back, I'm back, and I think I'll try to update you a lot more regularly.

So where shall I begin? Just what have I been up to this past month? Well, two things really- Dissertation and World Cup, but more of the latter. My productivity would have been a lot higher if this World Cup was in a crazy time zone that meant matches were at midnight or early mornings....but no, this World Cup happened to coincide with peak library time, and when you're faced with the choice of reading The Dialectic of Sex: The Case For Feminist Revolution or watching Brazil vs. North Korea, I know which one I'd choose.

So I'm pretty much very relieved that the World Cup is over, I can now focus wholeheartedly on this dissertation at hand. I've been pretty pleased with my work rate so far, it's much better than my progress last year...and having a fastidious and prompt supervisor is also a great benefit.

I shouldn't really use my blog to talk more about my dissertation, it seems that's all I do in real life, and it can get quite repetitive.

Well, apart from the dissertation, my life's been pretty unremarkable really, well at least unremarkable in terms of stuff I'd like to publicize on my blog. Other 'aspects' of my life have been pretty erm..unusual to say the least, and I'm still ruminating and getting my head around what's been happening, I've been learning about myself a lot lately, and yeah.....hopefully everything'll turn out well.

So yeah, that's been me, still kicking, still boring, still trying to squeeze out a little bit of fun out of the mundaneness of postgraduate life. Still Julian.......let's get the proceedings proceeding this evening.

Live, Love Life, Give Love!!!!

I think this is how my thoughts are at the moment