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So, today has been fairly replete with moments of win.
I started the morning off at the dentist's (win? you might be asking yourself right about now) getting a checkup, and I'm super-pleased to have discovered that my year of diligently flossing my teeth every night has paid off. Literally paid off, it turns out, because my dentist's office bills plaque-scraping in units of time, and all my flossing meant there wasn't much scraping. Yay, not much scraping! A reward in itself! Not only that, but a unit of plaque-scraping time is $35, and I only needed one, rather than what I expect was two the last time I went. Like I said, literally paid off, AND, I was done in half an hour when I'd been booked in for an hour, and that meant COFFEE SOONER. So yes, dental hygiene win!
After the dentist's, my dad and I went up to Salmon Arm to pick up tickets to the music festival there next weekend (I'm not actually going), and then had delicious lunch. I had a roasted cauliflower and pickled carrot sandwich on house-made baguette with leek and garlic aioli and it was amazing. Amazing! Epic sandwich win!
Once we were back from Salmon Arm, I spent the afternoon at the Blenz downtown (alas for my support of delightful local monk-themed indie coffeeshops, Bean Scene isn't air conditioned and my computer cannot deal with that), deciding on readings for my future students, transcribing things, and working on my article revisions. I made progress on my revisions! I revised five or six key sentences in the new version of my intro, in such a way that I think they better express what I'm trying to get at. Yay! Evolving article revision win!
And, tragically not Bean Scene, but Blenz makes a pretty good iced americano. Caffeine win!
My final moment of win came this evening, as I was continuing to think about readings for my students. I'm looking for something to assign alongside a chapter from In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life about New England gravestone design, and I was like wait, didn't I read an article in a magazine once about finding wool/knitting on archaeological sites in the arctic, and evidence of Norse-Dorset contact? My google skills failed me, mostly because I thought I'd read it in Canada's History (formerly The Beaver). However, where the internets failed me, my parents' assiduous hoarding of old magazines came through. The article in question is called "Strands of Evidence," and it's in the April, 2009 issue of Canadian Geographic, which is now sitting sawdustily next to my computer. Material textual object win!
Now I have to address myself to advisor R and see what she thinks about me assigning it, but in the meantime, I have it, AND I came across various other potentially-useful articles too. Magazine browsing win!
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/691204.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.
I started the morning off at the dentist's (win? you might be asking yourself right about now) getting a checkup, and I'm super-pleased to have discovered that my year of diligently flossing my teeth every night has paid off. Literally paid off, it turns out, because my dentist's office bills plaque-scraping in units of time, and all my flossing meant there wasn't much scraping. Yay, not much scraping! A reward in itself! Not only that, but a unit of plaque-scraping time is $35, and I only needed one, rather than what I expect was two the last time I went. Like I said, literally paid off, AND, I was done in half an hour when I'd been booked in for an hour, and that meant COFFEE SOONER. So yes, dental hygiene win!
After the dentist's, my dad and I went up to Salmon Arm to pick up tickets to the music festival there next weekend (I'm not actually going), and then had delicious lunch. I had a roasted cauliflower and pickled carrot sandwich on house-made baguette with leek and garlic aioli and it was amazing. Amazing! Epic sandwich win!
Once we were back from Salmon Arm, I spent the afternoon at the Blenz downtown (alas for my support of delightful local monk-themed indie coffeeshops, Bean Scene isn't air conditioned and my computer cannot deal with that), deciding on readings for my future students, transcribing things, and working on my article revisions. I made progress on my revisions! I revised five or six key sentences in the new version of my intro, in such a way that I think they better express what I'm trying to get at. Yay! Evolving article revision win!
And, tragically not Bean Scene, but Blenz makes a pretty good iced americano. Caffeine win!
My final moment of win came this evening, as I was continuing to think about readings for my students. I'm looking for something to assign alongside a chapter from In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life about New England gravestone design, and I was like wait, didn't I read an article in a magazine once about finding wool/knitting on archaeological sites in the arctic, and evidence of Norse-Dorset contact? My google skills failed me, mostly because I thought I'd read it in Canada's History (formerly The Beaver). However, where the internets failed me, my parents' assiduous hoarding of old magazines came through. The article in question is called "Strands of Evidence," and it's in the April, 2009 issue of Canadian Geographic, which is now sitting sawdustily next to my computer. Material textual object win!
Now I have to address myself to advisor R and see what she thinks about me assigning it, but in the meantime, I have it, AND I came across various other potentially-useful articles too. Magazine browsing win!
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/691204.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.