My first assignment in my post grad course has been to assess what successful means. The thing that’s most apparent is that success means different things to different people and different things to an individual over their lifetime. Tomorrow I stand up in front of 130-140 of my new peers and present the results of my mini project with the rest of my newly formed team. That’s always a bit nerve-wracking but as they say “no pain no gain”. I have the feeling that we’ll all have lost the will to live by the time we’ve all been subjected to the fifteenth version of the truth of the matter but it’s a process we all have to face. Still,at least volunteering to shoot this image for the project's powerpoint presentation gave me a PaD without needing to do it as a separate exercise.

In my home life, today DM and I think we have taken the first steps towards the successful conclusion of a project that’s been on-going for a very long time, think years rather than weeks or months. It’s something that’s brought a great deal of heartache and joy and it’s also been my main source of “employment” throughout this summer. It’ll be a long time before we can be sure that we’ve achieved our goal but for now the first steps have been taken and we can now sit back for a bit and wait for the wheels of other people’s industry to turn! We have fingers, toes and everything else we can muster crossed that it'll go smoothly.

Today’s news is the first step of the first big part of a three-part plan that will turn our world on its head once again. We are gluttons for punishment if nothing else.