Sophie's Socks and Stuff

I can't really believe I'm almost at the end of my PhD now. It's a bit scary really. I've never really planned anything and mostly I just go with the flow but I really love the science work I do and I want to keep doing it as well and as happily I can manage. To carry on with this requires planning I think and I've never been one for much planning and organising and stuff. I seem to change my mind every week about where I want to work. Originally I was never going to stick around after my PhD but then I decided I wanted to stick around with my chemistry supervisor, then he didn't get money to keep me so I thought maybe I should go, then I decided I really wanted to stick about whatever and now I've just heard that the specialist research centre I work in is likely to close down after the resignation of the director and now I don't know what I want to do.

I've learnt so much, both academically and personally that in a way I don't want it to end and I'm getting to the point where I can understand why so many people take so long writing up and generally hanging about after the 3 funded years.