What a day

A whole day of study and it is not over yet. Progress feels slow so far. I am dedicating the day to getting my head around the concept of critical realism and I have to say it's taking me much longer that I anticipated as this isn't something I have familiarity with. I have read a sociology article (took me 1 and a half hours to read, question and make notes I suspect that is a record!), then a mental health article, a legal article and a nursing article- none of them currently my field at all, wading through mud. I now know this is certainly the area I will struggle with so I have been making notes to put in my writing and a separate load of notes for my exam.

In other news I got a phone call today to say that an elderly man I have been wanting to blip for a while has agreed to meet with me tomorrow. I'm excited and I just hope he and I remember. He's in his 80s and retires on Monday. I've offered to take some photos and get several of them printed for him as a retirement gift as he hasn't had any really personal gifts to mark the occasion- it's one of those fate things really as I am just an occasional 'hotdesker' at a place where he works so it was chance I found out he was retiring with immediacy.

SP ban is still in place but I though this old doll with the cracking lines and lost eyes reflects perfectly how I feel as I wade through this research that my brain doesn't like. The unsettling feeling is wondering how much longer it will take to digest it all and replace my current research position arguments with this new knowledge. Pretty frightened that it may not make sense!