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i'm grading lots of papers this afternoon. some are good, some are not.
things are good as a whole. my wifey and i are searching for a house in the country with a few acres. all we keep seeing for houses in our price range are warnings about what can go wrong with owning a house. teens run amok tried to paint the DROP CEILING of one basement while their parents replaced the 1969 wood paneling with barnwood (not hot, my friends) for a l'il hint of rustic.
what else? i'm starting to fight my way through a 1878 travel account of Gabon in German. i have one semester of German under my belt and i'm sitting in on two classes this semester. it is taking me about 2 or 3 hours per page. this is like the Somme of reading. no one can ever complain about learning French - at least les francais don't try to stack 15 clauses in one sentence! i found out the author's diaries of his 3 yr stay in Gabon are in Berlin.
this leads to a list of all the places i would ideally like to visit to look at archival materials. i better hit them scratch tickets to pull it off...
Switzerland
Neuchatel - Protestant missionary collections
France
Paris - lots of stuff
Vincennes - French naval archives
Aix-en-Provence - colonial archives
Nantes - some dossier from the foreign ministry
Strasbourg - Albert Schweitzer archives
Italy
Rome - female Catholic religious order archive
Germany
Berlin - explorers' diaries
Austria
Vienna - materials collected in Gabon in the 1870s
of course, i'd really like to dunk, too. or spit columns of flame from my mouth.
things are good as a whole. my wifey and i are searching for a house in the country with a few acres. all we keep seeing for houses in our price range are warnings about what can go wrong with owning a house. teens run amok tried to paint the DROP CEILING of one basement while their parents replaced the 1969 wood paneling with barnwood (not hot, my friends) for a l'il hint of rustic.
what else? i'm starting to fight my way through a 1878 travel account of Gabon in German. i have one semester of German under my belt and i'm sitting in on two classes this semester. it is taking me about 2 or 3 hours per page. this is like the Somme of reading. no one can ever complain about learning French - at least les francais don't try to stack 15 clauses in one sentence! i found out the author's diaries of his 3 yr stay in Gabon are in Berlin.
this leads to a list of all the places i would ideally like to visit to look at archival materials. i better hit them scratch tickets to pull it off...
Switzerland
Neuchatel - Protestant missionary collections
France
Paris - lots of stuff
Vincennes - French naval archives
Aix-en-Provence - colonial archives
Nantes - some dossier from the foreign ministry
Strasbourg - Albert Schweitzer archives
Italy
Rome - female Catholic religious order archive
Germany
Berlin - explorers' diaries
Austria
Vienna - materials collected in Gabon in the 1870s
of course, i'd really like to dunk, too. or spit columns of flame from my mouth.