Dude, hella respect on going for the PhD! [img]smile.gif[/img] For me a PhD just sounds too gargantuan an academic undertaking to actually get started right now. Glad to hear you're living the good life though man!
Man, a hike in the Pyrenees! Sweet! Did you put pics up on Stealthy's?
I'm currently enjoying a month's piss-around time of my own. Staying with my folks in Christchurch (a 6 hour drive up the coast of the South Island) for a month before heading back to Uni in January to complete an English BA. I have four projects for the next month: 1)grow a beard. 2)get a tan. 3)finish all the novels I got half-way through then ran out of time to complete due to uni work. 4)get rid of this goddam beer-gut that has been creeping in over the past month or so! [img]smile.gif[/img]