While it is kind of a bummer that I spent all of yesterday reading and writing the review of The Great Famine by William Chester Jordan instead of working on my big Medieval Historiography paper due Thursday, in a way, it gave me a confidence boost much-needed to tackle that big project this week! And here's why ( Read more... )

So, after many times of wanting to, I've finally left a comment on the got medieval guy's blog. He had an anecdote asking for the 7 most important words/concepts associated with the Middle Ages. The playful word challenge came after he asked a group of yale students to think of words associated with "medieval," and all they could think of were ( Read more... )

Weekend. Today Casey and I went to the mall and we bought him some audition essentials, like, shoes and pants. It was a good time, and highlighted for me how much I don't know about men's clothing. And damn their shoes are so big! But it was fun dressing him up in nice clothes for him to try on. Anyway, the mall was fun and Casey got Mario Kart, ( Read more... )

1) Sleeping in ( Read more... )

The Cornell College Student Symposium is over! My 41 page paper is done (and it's amazing), my research is concluded, my books are waiting to return (finally, I've had most of them since 3rd block, some longer) to the University of Iowa Library ( Read more... )

Apparently there was an EARTHQUAKE this morning in the midwest! 5.4! I didn't feel it because I sleep like a log, but I kind of wish I had. Wouldn't that have been weird ( Read more... )

Paper = Edited. Now that it's all nice and clean and free of little mistakes and unnecessary information, it's only 41 pages. Haha. "only." I think I'm going to add a tiny spiel about architecture (quickly of course!) because I really liked my facts for that section and idk why it didn't make it into my outline. I can put the houses stuff in the ( Read more... )

Well, I stayed up much later than I intended, but voila, my paper is done! It came in at a whopping 43 pages, around 14,000 words. I am really proud of it, and I think it's the generally the paper I was hoping would come of this research ( Read more... )

I just hit page 40. I never thought this project would grow this big. I'm also amazed that even at 40 pages, I feel like there are ideas that I wish I'd researched more, facts I wish I knew so that I could include, resources I never got to that I wish I had... There's more work to be done here! It's also funny that I'm putting this much time into a ( Read more... )

I wish I could call the entirety of the medieval population "Medievalers" or "Middle-Agers." I need a word for these people!