PhD and Kendo

I submitted my PhD thesis yesterday:



I've been feeling really blank ever since, though slightly nervous of the examination process. Hopefully the results will be out by Christmas.

Now that I've got some free time...

Three Similarities between Writing a PhD Dissertation and Practising Kendo:

1. You keep doing the same things over and over and over and over again!
2. You get really anal with the details;
3. You are constantly concerned about doing the right things;

My next focus: The Uni Games in late this Month. Will be representing Sydney Uni in the Kyu Individual and Kyu Team events.

While I'll be eligible to grade for shodan in one year's time, I'm actually interested in doing it at the WKC in Taiper next year (a la Mingshi). Well we'll have to see about that.