7.23am
I can’t believe I am actually going to be free in 11 days and I only have to spend 1 more Saturday with Monsieur Thesis and after I officially become a free woman. As soon as I sign the form when my work is handed in at the Registry Office at uni, I won’t have any more early mornings, late nights and weekends spent with studying. I am so excited about this whole new chapter of my life! I can’t even imagine how it is going to feel, but I am just so grateful for every minute of this new adventure. 10 years ago when I started a Level 2 Interior Design course in Surrey I had no idea that by this time I would end up with a BA and very nearly finishing an MA. That is just one hack of a miracle as I had to work full-time all the way to finance my studies. Well I think in that respect it is fair enough to encounter a breakdown on the way under such pressure of literally having 2 full-time jobs for so long: being a full-time student and working full-time.
But until the breath of freedom reaches my nostrils on the 7th December I have to keep going with Monsieur Thesis, as we still have a lot of ties to cut in our relationship. We have been wrestling over the Literature Review for a few days now and finally after ending up with a 5000 word document, what is almost an essay on its own, I started ruthlessly cutting out massive chunks and aiming to reduce it for a 1000. Yesterday during Kerst`s Winter Queen evening in the church, I set on the mezzanine during the first half of his performance and I had a real breakthrough with the Literature Review. Suddenly all those different bits and pieces I read and collected in the past three years started to make sense. This was the third time I took Monsieur Thesis to church and on every occasion I had such an inspiration to write and understand bits I struggled with before. I believe places can inspire our mind and soul in such settled ways that it almost feels like a miracle.
8.03am
Back to Monsieur Thesis.
9.05
Seriously I can’t wait to finish this Literature Review! Since that tutorial on Thursday when I was told I might not pass, I am just over conscious with every word I write. Come on, pull yourself together and wiz on that keyboard!!!
10.40am
Complete, utter meltdown over Literature Review in front of Christina and Izzy! I am experiencing the difficulty of my chosen research area.
16.07pm
Couple of hours after the melt down I left the Literature review and moved onto the Findings From Case Studies, which I wrote very quickly thank God.
16.17pm
My right eye is really sore I need to take a break. 5 min under cucumber slices.
16.23pm
I could feel my right eye throbbing, not an encouraging sign. Now am having pirate eye. Hope no one knocks on the door and catches me with this black and green scarf clip on my hair to protect my eye.
From Monsieur Thesis:
`A central tenet of industrial capitalism is growth, but nothing can grow for ever, and we now seem to be reaching the limits of growth – at least in terms of the types of growth we have valued over the past century.’ (Page 73 13 - Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future, McClelland and Stewart Inc.)
`Bubble up and trickle down’
This theory originates from the relationship between polarised definitions of opposite forces depending on which way they relate to each other. In the fashion industry it manifests itself in the relationship between Haute Couture and street style. Whilst Haute Couture has been trickling down to inspire the high street fashion during the first half of the 20th century in the 1960’s the Bubble up effect of youth wearing Jeans and Miniskirt started to influence and inspire Haute Couture.
Szerb`s theory for Hungary`s economic growth is based on the trickle-down effect, where the government and its policy making could potentially support those innovative SME’s which have the capability to grow into a company like NOKIA in Finland, which largely contributes to the country’s GDP. That way in Hungary a relatively stable and wider upper income class would be generated, which could benefit the lower income class on the long-term by spending more money on employing and investing in it. Szerb also argues that even though these ‘gazelle’ businesses are up to EU standards in terms of their innovative advantages, once they get to the point of needing investment to grow from SMEs to larger companies they could lose their competitive advantage in the Innovation market due to lack of funding and high taxation under the current policy making.`
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