I am sad to say that my time back in Scotland is rapidly coming to a close without any sure estimate of when I might be back again. The last week has been wonderful and has introduced me to even more that I love about this city and the people here.
a bit of an update on my research-
Thankfully I seem to have managed my time well so I am entering my final day of research on monday with a pretty open schedule as to what I need to see. I was pretty worried that I was not going to have enough hours to complete all my research, but I even ended up taking part of friday off of researching after getting to the end of my 'must read' list of documents. As much as I have really enjoyed using the special collections it does get a bit sad going there every day for 8 hours and not talking to anyone and only being in the company of 5 other really old dudes doing research and the occasional Uni student who wanders in. By yesterday lunchtime I was in huge need of social contact after being just a little bit too pent up in the world of 19th century manuscripts and stories about dead people (though granted I now have some dirt on Wordsworth if I ever need to do some blackmailing, its a shame I am not taking the Wordsworth senior seminar!), so after deciding that I was certainly on if not ahead of schedule I wandered downto Voltaire and Rousseau where I inevitably ended up buying 4 books (I've recently been on a Paulo Coehlo spree and I conveniently found his next 3 books I want to read!) and then headed to Artisan for some caffeine and reading.
Later in the evening I journeyed across the park to my old pub of choice, Lebowski's, and thanks to being friends with the bartender got a world tour of gins including a spanish gin with olives--yum! I also got to taste some excellent tequila which apparently has some story with the Mexican Government changing some laws about liquor for, Greig (bowski's bartender friend) told me the whole story and it was all very intriguing at the time but that's all I remember. Who knew tequila could be good enough to sip on?? All in all it was an excellent evening and just the cure I needed for my socially deprived, early to bed self of the last week.
Today is for the last planning of my Monday research and then tomorrow I am headed to Asia Style (basically the only asian restaurant in Glasgow and its pretty damn good) with Greig for a last hurrah, then Monday is researching and packing for early wake up call to get to the airport! Can't believe I'm on this end of the trip already, I'm pretty sure time just moves quicker in Glasgow.
Must get work done now and get back to my Chai Latte!
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