not the motorcycle diaries

Heavenstobetsy - I leave for Brazil in exactly ten (10) weeks. In an effort to be Calm And Adult about this reality, I have written myself a mature and orderly Plan for this period:

*Week beginning June 13:*

- Lit review on track

- Conference paper outlined

- Seminar paper outlined

- Mark 4896720301 exams

*June 20:*

- Exams back to students

- Final marks sent through

- Outline/draft of paper/s to supervisor

*June 27:*

- Paper writing

- Lit Review

- Melbourne trip 1

*July 4:*

- Paper writing

- Lit Review

- Brazil internal flights organised

*July 11 :*

- News on ethics?

- News on grants?

- Paper writing: meet with supervisor

- Review Lit Review

- Final Portuguese class

*July 18 :*

- Brazil accommodation sorted

- Melbourne trip 2: give conference paper

- Seminar paper

- Learn Portuguese

*July 25 :*

- Give seminar paper

- Learn Portuguese

- Do relevant medical things (e.g. briefly contract yellow fever)

*August 1 :*

- Reading for research design

- Review Lit Review

- Think about packing and storage

- Think about other such practical things that need to be done

- Learn Portuguese

*Aug 8:*

- Itinerary and finances finalised

- General confirming of things

- Trip to Adelaide?

*Aug 15 :*

- Freak out, forget how to speak Portuguese, decide my true career is as a gossip columnist and it’s not too late, develop airplane phobia, etc.

Leave in the afternoon of August 21. Arrive in Porto Alegre 20something hours later via Buenos Aires. Still on August 21st.