Dissertation progress

Leg update: The pain has gone down, but I'm still not able to sit by my desk and work.

My dissertation is slowly getting there, slowly. This week has mostly been about reading and taking notes of potential. In my July post Dissertation progress I said I had changed it from the original one with Narnia and fiction film to documentary film, the Arab spring and citizen journalism. Now I'm thinking of changing it again. Because I've come to realise that the more relevant to my own personal desires for a career path, the better I can write. This should have been obvious to me from the start. In the summer I wrote about 2000 handwritten notes, bullet points etc. on this topic, so even though the deadline in the 8th of March, it will only be a matter of "unpacking" my notes and turning it into text.

I'm keeping the documentary and citizen journalism, but changing the Arab spring for a deep analysis of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004).

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Break a leg 'ey

On Friday the 18th of January there was Swansea's first "snowday" and some friends and I decided to go sledding down a hill. More like a tiny slope, not even steep .. Anyway, after 20 minutes of sledding I managed to break my leg, dislocate my ankle and fracture my ankle joint on British snow... That's quite embarrassing considering I'm Norwegian and used to snow.

After the surgery I was allowed to have a below-knee cast, so now I'm actually able to bend my knee.

After a successful surgery, where they inserted two screws into my ankle, I've been given a cast which I have to have on for six weeks. After those six weeks, I can expect one month of physio.

Because of all of this, I've had to cancel all my shoots for the Discovery commercial and London based documentary. This is because these projects are with kids and I need consent forms which include specific dates I'll be filming. And the London documentary I have postpone simply because I can't walk. 

And because I don't know when I will be able to walk again, I can't schedule anything. The doctor told me that he EXPECTED me to be able to walk without crutches two-three weeks AFTER the cast has come off. But before I can see my physiotherapist (in seven weeks) to give me a green light, planning has halted.

However, there's one good thing in all of this: I'll get my dissertation done... since I can't run away from it. So for the next seven weeks, my bed will be filled with books and notes.

But like say, Keep calm and carry on. I'm not worried, I'll get there.

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