And life continues...

I hope you all enjoyed my photos! The trip was amazing and it was really great to see my family after about 7 months! We saw many things in London and Paris that it's hard to remember it all. I really love going to places that I have learned about throughout my years of school. It's a fantastic feeling seeing something that you have studied. It was great to see the Eiffel Tower and Tower of London, as well as sooo many other things. I hope the pictures gave you an idea of how much we saw!
I have recently purchased plane tickets to come back for a few weddings at the end of July. The weddings are the weekend of the 31st of July/1st of August. I will only be home for a few days so I apologize if I don't get to see you. I am coming back in September after having finished my dissertation and (hopefully) receiving my Master's. I won't officially know until January whether I passed or not, however. I will be looking for jobs over the next few months and when I return. Hopefully I will be able to start working soon as I have a massive amount of student debt to pay off. If you hear of anything in the cultural heritage sector, let me know! :)
My dissertation is now in full swing. I am giving a lecture on my research in a week and I'm slightly terrified. I'm sure it will go fine, but I always get nervous before that sort of thing. Then, my first chapter is due on June 1 and from then on out I will be working like a fiend. I will need to completely finished with the first draft by the time I'm home for the weddings so that will at least give me an incentive to get everything done with enough time. It's a massive project working on something like this, but I also don't have classes at all. That means I have a large open amount of time that I need to structure so that I can stay on track. If anyone has any advice on time management I could use some. I always get things done on time, but I am known for procrastinating slightly. I can't do that this time around. It would be chaos.
Well, that's about all I have to mention at the moment.
I miss you all and hope things are going well in your lives!