I'm a slacker. Give me a break.

With all the free time I have you'd think that I could keep up with this blog. Oh wait...
I'm now finished with classes forever. At least for this year anyways, who knows if I'll go back to school. Not anytime soon that's for sure. I just handed in my last 2 essays and we are technically on break right now. We don't actually get a break however. We have alot of research to do over this break for our dissertations. Speaking of dissertations, it's really scary to now be working on it. A little bit overwhelming also. I have realized that there is an insurmountable amount of scholarship on the Israeli-Palestinian topic and I am going to have to be selective and skim most of it. There is much less on cultural heritage though. I think I will easily be able to fill my word count for the final draft, but I'm just hoping I will be able to find more that is pertinent to my topic.
I've started looking at jobs as well and I have found some really great ones. Most of the ones that I have found are in Washington D.C, but that's probably because I was looking at the government jobs in Cultural Heritage. The ones in DC pay alot more, but you need to have work experience. We'll see. I will probably apply to them anyways because some say that a Master's degree can replace the requirement for work experience. Awesome. I'll have one of those. *finger's crossed*
I have 2 weddings later this summer that I would love to come back for, but not sure I'll have the time or money for it, so I'm still thinking about whether or not it's a good idea.
What else is new.... Oh yeah, the ducks and geese seem to be in excess poop mood. There is a disgusting amount of bird crap everywhere on campus. They actually have a (excuse my language) shit-zamboni (for those of you that aren't hockey fans or Canadian, a zamboni cleans the ice between period in a hockey game) that goes around and cleans it up. It's really gross.
Katie is coming to visit in about 10 days and the my parents come 5 days later. We are all going to London and Paris which is really exciting!
Well, that's pretty much all that's new with me. I know I did that long list of things that are different between here and the US. I can try and think up a few things now.
They don't really use the phrase gov'na here like people think. Also, if someone says your English accent is like Dick VanDyke's, it's not a compliment. He has an awful English accent. It's not a British accent like people say because Britain includes Ireland and Scotland so it's impossible to have a British accent. Scottish accents are really awesome. I had a few lecturers in my classes from Scotland and I love it. People here think a 2 hour drive is a really long ways to drive. Distance is completely different here. I have no problem driving 2 hours back home, but here it's just not done unless absolutely necessary. If you think about it this way, it takes about 6 hours to drive from the north of England to the south of England... It's not very big. But, there are tons of people who live in the north that have never been to London and vice versa. Traveling is just not that common here. Also, the actor that plays Dr. House on the show House, is actually English and he was in a hilarious British comedy called Blackadder.
I think that's about all I have right now. Hope it satisfied all of you who have been harassing me about updating. :)
Love you all and miss you!