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This week, ever since Monday's fun with charters, has mostly been pretty meh, hence my lack of updating. Today, however, has been pretty good! At the moment, I have a train ticket to Paris for Sunday morning, people's advice about the Bibliothèque nationale de France, a new flavor of tisane (mint-eucalyptus), a new Nicolas Le Floch mystery (the sixth: Le sang des farines), and best of all, plans for tomorrow to hang out with someone who doesn't currently live in my computer!
As far as that last item, I ran into SK, who lives in one of the other apartments in my building, on my way back from the grocery store this morning, and we've now arranged to go to the market at Les Lices tomorrow morning. I'll have to refrain from buying all the lovely vegetables because of my upcoming archive trip, but it will be excellent to actually have someone to talk to and do something with for once (in French, no less). Yay! I think some of this week's meh was definitely due to no human contact whatsoever, so this should be a good antidote.
I actually managed to be quite busy today, after my midweek slump, which I'm pleased with. I finally got it together to go to the bibliothèque municipale and look at a microfilm there that I promised one of my fellow Boston medievalists I'd check out - in September. I've been dreading it, but of course the librarians in the pôle patrimoine were lovely and helpful and got me all set up in like, ten minutes flat. Alas, as far as I can tell, the synodal decrees I was looking at didn't have much of any relevance in them, but still, done! Or, you know, maybe not, because I have to consult and see if I might have missed something, but the awful spectre of the first visit is at least vanquished.
After I left the library, I walked to the train station to pick up my ticket for Sunday (which I ordered this morning after waffling over the possibilities of saving money by ride-sharing). I also had a pain au chocolat and an orangina from my favorite purveyor of delicious vegetarian sandwiches and pastries, and as I ate them I got in some quality Friday-afternoon train-station people-watching. The few minutes before the announcement of the platform for the Friday 17h33 dual-train TGV to Paris-Montparnasse is possibly the choicest moment of train-station people-watching of the entire week, I'm just saying. I thoroughly enjoyed both the snack and the people-watching.
From the train station, I went to the bus station across the street, to get information for my potential day-trip tomorrow afternoon, and then, because the weather was fantastic and I've been far too sedentary lately, I walked the 3.75-ish kilometers home, with a detour to visit Librairie Le Failler for Nicolas Le Floch. I should also note that, now that it's warmer and not raining out, I've finally been able to wear my awesome menswear-inspired blazer that I got while I was home in Vernon at Christmas. Today I wore it over a raspberry-pink long-sleeved t-shirt with the silk scarf I got the last time I was in Paris (I'm pretty sure I haven't mentioned it here, but it's a red, gold, mint-green, and blue paisley jacquard and in future I will probably buy things just to wear with it), and felt extreeeemely well-dressed, because scarf and menswear-inspired blazer OF MY HEART.
Anyway, after all that, especially the two hours of white-on-black Latin-text microfilm, I am le tired, so I think I'm going to go and spend some quality time with M. le commissaire Le Floch, and then go to bed.
Oh, and I must say that the fact that the Canucks won last night helped my day get off to a good start. Waking up to Daniel Sedin likely getting concussed by Duncan Keith and the Canucks losing to the Blackhawks certainly did not help Thursday morning! Eeeeep, Daniel, get better! And noooooo, Duncan Keith, you're from Penticton! Why you gotta be like that?
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/671223.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.
As far as that last item, I ran into SK, who lives in one of the other apartments in my building, on my way back from the grocery store this morning, and we've now arranged to go to the market at Les Lices tomorrow morning. I'll have to refrain from buying all the lovely vegetables because of my upcoming archive trip, but it will be excellent to actually have someone to talk to and do something with for once (in French, no less). Yay! I think some of this week's meh was definitely due to no human contact whatsoever, so this should be a good antidote.
I actually managed to be quite busy today, after my midweek slump, which I'm pleased with. I finally got it together to go to the bibliothèque municipale and look at a microfilm there that I promised one of my fellow Boston medievalists I'd check out - in September. I've been dreading it, but of course the librarians in the pôle patrimoine were lovely and helpful and got me all set up in like, ten minutes flat. Alas, as far as I can tell, the synodal decrees I was looking at didn't have much of any relevance in them, but still, done! Or, you know, maybe not, because I have to consult and see if I might have missed something, but the awful spectre of the first visit is at least vanquished.
After I left the library, I walked to the train station to pick up my ticket for Sunday (which I ordered this morning after waffling over the possibilities of saving money by ride-sharing). I also had a pain au chocolat and an orangina from my favorite purveyor of delicious vegetarian sandwiches and pastries, and as I ate them I got in some quality Friday-afternoon train-station people-watching. The few minutes before the announcement of the platform for the Friday 17h33 dual-train TGV to Paris-Montparnasse is possibly the choicest moment of train-station people-watching of the entire week, I'm just saying. I thoroughly enjoyed both the snack and the people-watching.
From the train station, I went to the bus station across the street, to get information for my potential day-trip tomorrow afternoon, and then, because the weather was fantastic and I've been far too sedentary lately, I walked the 3.75-ish kilometers home, with a detour to visit Librairie Le Failler for Nicolas Le Floch. I should also note that, now that it's warmer and not raining out, I've finally been able to wear my awesome menswear-inspired blazer that I got while I was home in Vernon at Christmas. Today I wore it over a raspberry-pink long-sleeved t-shirt with the silk scarf I got the last time I was in Paris (I'm pretty sure I haven't mentioned it here, but it's a red, gold, mint-green, and blue paisley jacquard and in future I will probably buy things just to wear with it), and felt extreeeemely well-dressed, because scarf and menswear-inspired blazer OF MY HEART.
Anyway, after all that, especially the two hours of white-on-black Latin-text microfilm, I am le tired, so I think I'm going to go and spend some quality time with M. le commissaire Le Floch, and then go to bed.
Oh, and I must say that the fact that the Canucks won last night helped my day get off to a good start. Waking up to Daniel Sedin likely getting concussed by Duncan Keith and the Canucks losing to the Blackhawks certainly did not help Thursday morning! Eeeeep, Daniel, get better! And noooooo, Duncan Keith, you're from Penticton! Why you gotta be like that?
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/671223.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.