Leaving Scotland!

I have finished my MLitt in Early Modern History and moved back to Ireland. I have already done a few job applications and interviews, and I have a small translation contract to follow up on but I have no actual job at the moment, which is so weird to me. I've been working and volunteering on-and-off since I was 15 or 16, and I've always been too busy. I only got back last night, so today is just laundry and car-washing and bookshelf-organisation. I felt like full-time study (especially with completely unstructured time) was bad for me honestly, but I think and hope that I'll get a good result on my final dissertation. I had a good time last week. I saw Edinburgh again (my beloved), Perth, Dundee, Stirling, and visited my cousins in Northumberland. They have such a lovely household and lifestyle, I felt a bit jealous (not in a mean way) of how nice their parents are to them. I think we all really liked each other, I wish we met more frequently - it had been ten or eleven years since we met last. I don't plan to have children but I really admire and treasure those households where they have children and raise them right, it's like knowing there's a solid foothold in the world even if you can't or wouldn't want to stand there. I have more to say, but no time xxx