After a while

So my life has been rather dull lately and I figured there was nothing really worth writing about. I now have a job working at a local deli. This is definitely a good thing since being an Arts PhD, it's difficult to find funding and I was getting pretty low on cash. It's a great place and I love it. I'm working about 20 hours a week so it's keeping me pretty busy with all my other spare time being spent in the library. I like to think of my job as my new hobby. It's keeping me sane at least.

Other than that, my life is the same old, same old. No exciting adventures. I don't have time. However, March should be interesting as I am giving a paper (or something) at our post-graduate seminar, am heading to Edinburgh, and am going to Germany for a conference. I have a ton of work to do before the 20th so, I probably won't be updating for the next little bit. I can't believe it's already the end of February. Time is just flying by and I'm worried that three years will be over before I know it and I won't have anything to show for the work I've done.

Anstruther

Today was such a beautiful day, and since we've all been working pretty hard (and it's the weekend before the new semester starts) a couple of us decided to go on a bus adventure to Anstruther. It's a little town just across the North Sea from Edinburgh and like most towns here, it's a little fishing town that has the Scottish fishing museum along with a number of neat little shops and pubs. It is also well known for having the 2001-2002 winner of the best chippy in the UK (it is second place right now to a chippy in Cambridgeshire). And so, off we went, to explore the beach, eat great fish and chips and just get away from work for a while.

As most of you may know, I am a prairie girl and was born and raised to love steak and all things beef. I'm not a huge fan of fish or seafood even after spending 6 years on the west coast of Canada. However, I figured, since after all I am in Britain, the home of fish and chips, I should at least eat some while I'm here. And so, since I am apparently becoming more adventurous these days, I actually had fish and chips and they were amazing. The fish was nice and moist and the batter not too greasing and not too heavy. Perfect. Plus the chips here are really tasty especially with salt and vinegar. So now, that I've found out I like fish and chips (at least the ones from the second best chippy in the UK) I'm having a little identity crisis. I'm not sure if I'll be able to eat any others. Maybe they just won't be as good and I'll be disappointed. Below is a picture of J showing off our wonderful meal.


We spent the rest of our time there playing on the beach, playing on a swing set and walking along the pier. As we walked along the coast trail, there is a sign warning hikers to be quiet as you are walking beside a golf course. God forbid, we nature loving hikers distrub those yuppy golfers with their fake landscape and manicured grass. Only in Scotland..... (or maybe not).