Old Rich White People

I now have a new cord for my computer, and am back to full power! That said, I am heading to Italy tomorrow (!!!) and will not be bringing my computer with me. Maya has a computer and an iPad that I will be able to use, so I may post while in Italy, but I'm not promising to... I can't remember if I mentioned this before, but yes, I am going to Italy for two weeks. My friend Maya recently moved there, and as her husband is away on a training thing for a couple of months, she invited me up to help her settle in and explore, something I was very happy to take her up on. So, Italy! 

Also, it says a lot about how long my power cord was on its way out that I am finding it very distracting having its little light on while I'm typing this (bonus – I now have both UK *and* Canadian attachments for my computer!). 

Now. This will be my last post about anything during dissertation (I believe), meaning that we have basically caught up to my looooong period of not posting! And its a short one – not much to say, other than Charles and Camilla came to my uni while in Edinburgh to look at the music centre, and we took a study break to go out and gawk and them. I made several snide comments to my friends about asking them how they feel about being a part of an outdated and useless form of governance, Charles asked us if we were on our tea break while walking past us, we all laughed awkwardly, and that was the end of it. 

Royalty is weird (I mean that as in the system, not the individuals, though, in some cases, the individuals as well).  

EDIT: after writing this post, I realized I already talked about this in my brief attempt at chronicling my entire dissertation process. This summer has been a bit of a faff for blog posts, I admit. Never writing a dissertation again should help prevent this sort of thing from becoming a regular occurance though.