Laughing with the Ladies

Spending more time in the Reading Room with the postgraduates also means that I get to spend more time with these hilarious and intelligent women. Not just the ladies from my course, but these women from other disciplines. It's really neat. And the relationships we all have a really low-key. Like work buddies because we see each other at work. But where work relationships are strained by the interactions of work, this is like seeing folks from another project on a smoke break. We only interact to say hello, share common interests (i.e. whose mobile was that?), and otherwise just enjoy the moments we have together. I don't know how many of these relationships will survive outside the demands of postgraduate research and the smile-and-nod interactions of our daily lives, but it's been just right for this time and place. And that appreciation will last even after we loose contact.