I'm baaack, again

I'm trying to settle back to proper boring work - the carryover essay and the dissertation research. I wish I could just get the arch essay out of the way, so I could enjoy the research, bu I simply don't have much idea where I am going with an essay, whose topic I more or less picked at random, since they were all distasteful in a similar way. I am so sick of thinking so much about death, burial, funerary rites, and religious beliefs to be extrapolated thereon.
If I wanted to know quite so much about death, I might have opted to become an undertaker. Any minute now we may start of the minutiae of embalming...although that might be more bearable than endless discussion, with examples and full references please, on the various theories and interpretations of ideology and social organisation represented by different styles of burial.etc.
If it would just be the very end of it, I could gee myself up with that thought,but it will all have to be rehashed one more time for exams next May. O joy.
Then, next term:-Ethnicity... again. Terminal lack of imagination has affected the School of Arch this year.
Still, looking at next term's lecture plan has given me something to smile about - I have only 6 or 7 lectures per week, and may get Fridays off, once the Dissertation is underway. woo-hoo.
One more week of break and I have a full itinerary of Library visits, talks to intending students, house-cleaning and duty socialising, before being once more swallowed up by the demands of the new courses, not to mention getting this blasted essay set up,if not finished.
Unfortunately, I have become the Queen of Procrastination.