Moving on...

I have begun to reconnect with my work for my dissertation. I have completely lost touch with it for a few months. Looking back now I realized I was simply burned out from back to back degrees. I started late and then just got totally immersed in building an academic career. I don't think doing a BA, and MPhil and now a PhD all in a row was a mistake just that there is a cost to be paid and these few weeks of vacation have been very restorative.

Now I am re-engaged in my work and ready to get busy again. I will not be working as a T/A this fall so I will be able to concentrate on preparing for my candidacy exams. Once I finish those I am free to leave Calgary and get back to Newfoundland and to start my fieldwork. It will be odd to be coming back here with the thought of putting down roots again. I'm not sure if it will actually take or if I will get the urge to go again. There are so many places I have not been. So many worlds I have not experienced.