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Yep, we’re back to the daily grind. I started back at work after a two-week break while my parents were here. Thankfully the last two days were slow (overall anyway) so it wasn’t Ashley returning from vacation mode to Ashley running around with her head cut off. Of course I have gotten ill again; I think this is the third time I’ve come down with something since moving to Scotland. I even missed both services on Sunday since I didn’t want to exacerbate the lung-hacking, nose-blowing thing. My wonderful manager let me come in to work today at noon, so I think getting about 10-11 hours of sleep has helped me to feel better today. So now, I’ve started taking a multi-vitamin and making sure I get lots of sleep. Also, I’m going to try not to overdo it this term and not to overstress either.

I have my first class tomorrow. It’s called Anglo Scots and North Britons and though the title doesn’t sound all that enthralling, I think it’ll give me some good background and I hope to get to know the prof (who may end up being my PhD supervisor) better through taking her class. It is odd being a postgrad though, we call our profs by their first names–I always feel odd emailing them and saying: ‘Hi Bob,’ or ‘Hi Susan,’. Then, I found out my core course, Postcolonial Identities, has been changed from Thursday afternoons to Friday mornings just like it was last term. I don’t like morning classes and especially on a Friday. I know you all feel so sorry for me when you are working five mornings (and afternoons) a week, but you are getting paid while I PAY the University. Ah well. This term ends mid-March and then it’s just writing the MSc dissertation on…something interesting I come up with. I’m also hoping to apply to upgrade my MSc to PhD status within the next month. Now I just have to come up with a research proposal!

I think every day I walk home I am reminded how much I like Edinburgh. It’s been right warm in fact this week with temperatures topping off at 52F once! It’s a beautiful city and so charming. I miss family and friends and all the security of living somewhere where we know people and are involved, but at the same time, I really like it here, even without everything all sorted. We are a bit short on our finances, so please pray for provision; also, we could use some more close friends.

So how are you all doing?

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