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Els Encantats i el llac de Sant Maurici

Caminant no aconsegueixo alliberar-me del dia a dia i aïllar-me per gaudir de l'entorn

El cert es que tot desitjant fer un punt i apart, no faig res per posar-lo, i això em deixa davant meu, tot sol, i no em queixo pas

Ara mateix escolto la remor de l'aigua, pel rierol que baixa cap a l'estany, com a únic so que m'envolta, però vaig escrivint per al blog, com si fos a casa, que hi soc

Urlaub machen

Coll de l'Oli, Pallars Jussa
Only one hour walk, looking North

Wait & Wait

Two weeks ago I succeded in delivering the full set of documents to be accepted by the University of Barcelona.
Although I have mentioned, only few days later they noticed that I don't have a degree in Laws. They informed that this is not a blocking issue, but the process for acceptance must be different, having to be approved by the Doctoral Comission. No problem, only a little extra delay

Slow train coming

As Dylan said.

More than 5 months already since my last post. Half a year.

I was very disappointed when noticing that my investigation was impossible due to the lack of data, which was going to be collected ( and managed ) by another investigation team, leaded by Jaume Magre

The truth is that without data to work with, there was no subject, or no theory to demonstrate.

I made another proposal to Dr. Reniu, about the way the memebers of a political coalition act and react during the last year of his mandate, before the elections, but again there was not enough data available for getting into conclussions.

Currrently, what we are going to register as doctoral dissertation is to study the relation, if any, linking a certain ideology, a certain political party with the seats the party gets when being member of a governmental coalition . Do the Green party always gets a seat relating Grass? ( I mean grass, you know, what the cows, some cows, eat ).

If this can be assessed, the next step is how to explain the exceptions. Do the opinion polls modify the preferences of the parties when opting for a seat during the negotiations?

Well, it looks fine to me.

The comming years will be ( more ) exciting dealing with all this matters, aside of the normal life

Competition

Yesterday I informed the director of the project, that finally I received the last required document from the University, in order to register the dissertation, and he told me that there is a group in Barcelona willing, also, to investigate about the same subject: the voting tendencies of the commuters.

I have two options:

- To contact the group: I will do it
- To make a new proposal for a different research subject. I will also do

To be continued....

carpe diem VS sic transit gloria mundi

When I decided to add this post I thought that there was no relation between what I'm going to explain and the doctoral dissertation, but I was wrong, absolutely wrong.

My father died the 7th of December, so less than one week ago.
In few months we would celebrate his 90th aniversary.
At midnight he was fine, at home, creating a DVD with pictures and music for his friends; one hour later he died in the hospital, so no pain at all.

The next two days we have been receiving condolences from a lot of people that we never knew before. The church was not enough to accommodate all the people willing to be there, with him for the last time.

He played the same role that he always used to: some of my cousins, relations broken during the last 25 years came to the funeral, so he succeded one more time to make people forget minor, often stupid and nonsense disputes.

So a lot of sadness, but also a contradictory feeling of satisfaction knowing that he was very appreciated. The priest said: I know he was a good man. I just have to count the people paying the last visit

Well, certainly, not being able to explain him how I'm doing, what I'm learning, it's emptying one of the goals of this project, in the sense of making him proud of me.

The day of the funeral I meet unknown people telling to me and to my brother that they knew about us: our studies, our work, our families...

I have to accept that this was not only an intelectual challenge, as I thought

Thanks dad

Technological mistake

When I had the presentation of the investigation ready, I sent the PPT to Dr. Reniu so he could advise me.
Since then I have been asking him about his opinion, but he always rejected to give a clear answer
Last week we had a f2f meeting were I insisted about knowing his thoughts after reading my presentation.
He opened the file, while I was also looking at the screen...........
It seems that I sent him a draft with three slides were I only wrote some ideas, not in order, just to start filling in an emplty slide
Believing that this was something that I was proud of creating, he had i mind to tell me that maybe the best idea would be to stop inmediately, and avoid wasting time

Well, some hours later I could send him the right file, which I expect to be taken into consideration as a starting point ( or as the end point)

The right file I could retrieve from a mail message, because all the files with the same name in two different PC's and in two pendrives were overwritten by the first draft

This means that from now on I will have to be more accurate in the naming of the files, using v ( version numbers ) at the end of the name of the file