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 I made several snide comments to my friends about asking them how they feel about being a part of an outdated and useless form of governance, Charles asked us if we were on our tea break while walking past us, we all laughed awkwardly, and that was the end of it.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.

Dissertation Days Five & Six

After an utterly unproductive, but nonetheless lovely weekend (more on that another day), I went back to school Monday with what I hoped would be a renewed vigour. Unfortunately, it was more of a renewed lethargy, and Monday ended up being, while still productive, not my best day ever, at around 2k written. 

However, Charles and Camille stopped by to look at the music facilities or something (I wasn't that invested in the entire affair) so we took a break to do some royals watching.

Charles waved at us as he walked past, and asked us if we were having a tea break. We laughed and said yes to be polite. The entire thing was very weird. I don't get royalty. But hey. I got in my obligatory "I live in Britain hey look royal people" moment.

The day ended when I hit 10k and decided that was good enough, a fact that was really just cemented when I mentioned this to Becky and she kinda slid off her chair and then curled up under the table.

In unrelated news, I haven't been straightening my hair the last couple of days, instead giving the natural curls a chance to exert themselves for once.

I'm not quite sure about this yet.

Today was a far more productive day, and though I still have the majority of my conclusion, and parts of my methodology left to write, I finished the survey analysis and printed off a first rough draft. Today was gorgeous, and I'm hoping tomorrow will be the same - as I'm (however temporarily) back on paper, its the perfect chance to return to my old starbucks & sunshine in the morning routine!

Jordan's birthday party is tomorrow night, and I'm also going to a matinee of Rise of the Planet of the Apes with Becky, Jack, and Ali, so it is unlikely there will be a post going up tomorrow. Just fyi.