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It's a somewhat chilly Wednesday, but any real complaints about it being -12 celsius here right now and also this morning are pathetic in the face of it being -25 with a windchill of -38 celsius, or almost -40 fahrenheit in Quebec where all my siblings live), so no whining about the weather today. It's Wednesday, and I have been, am, and will be reading things!
What I'm currently reading:
I've stopped in the middle of Giorgio Riello and Beverly Lemire, "East and West: Textiles and Fashion in Early Modern Europe," Journal of Social History (summer 2008), 887-916 for an internet break. I'm also in the process of a Two Towers reread.
What I've been reading:
I just finished Giorgio Riello, "The Globalization of Cotton Textiles: Indian Cottons, Europe, and the Atlantic World, 1600-1850" and Anne McCants, "Exotic Goods, Popular Consumption, and the Standard of Living: Thinking about Globalization in the Early Modern World." All this cotton and consumption is working up to my lecture on the (eighteenth-century) consumer revolution and the global origins of the industrial revolution for Friday. Of course, none of these articles turns out to be as much about the industrial revolution as I thought I remembered - I might be mixing them up with one or more talks I've heard Giorgio Riello give. Anyway, I also read Lynn Hunt, ed. The French Revolution and Human Rights yesterday for discussion with my students this morning. And I've been reading through my charters looking for mentions of monastic vocations or child oblations for my semester's seminar paper/dissertation chapter.
What I'm going to read next:
More articles for my lecture, including Audrey Douglas, "Cotton Textiles in England: the East India Company's Attempt to Exploit Developments in Fashion 1660-1721," and probably some other things TBD about the Industrial Revolution. Something on the technology side might be useful. I'm also going to reread the Communist Manifesto and some associated documents, and some documents on factory conditions during the Industrial Revolution, in preparation for next week's discussion. Also, I should keep going on the Two Towers, and come up with some things to read toward my seminar paper. But Friday's lecture is, obviously, currently the top priority.
In other news, I have acquired a space heater (last weekend was truly a weekend of buying ALL THE THINGS), because I do feel justified in complaining about the temperature of my room. It is poorly insulated and poorly heated, and under the current weather conditions I'm having trouble keeping it much above ten degrees celsius (50 fahrenheit). That's sort of unpleasant! But the space heater seems effective.
I also made a delicious pot of soup for supper tonight - this soup. I used the contents of a peppermint tea bag for the mint, and OM NOM NOM. This might be my new go-to veggie-bean-tomato soup with self-creating stock!
Finally, I dedicated several hours yesterday (and a small second-thoughts crisis that took the better part of three apple employees to resolve) to delivering and picking up my computers at the apple store for data transfer. But my new computer now contains all the learnings of Hughie of Blessed Memory and Placid Retirement! I spent some quality time today updating programs, because poor Hughie was having trouble assimilating updates in his last year or so, and now I think, barring unexpected issues with powerpoint, that I'm all switched over. That means I need to name my new computer! "Hughie" was short for Hugues Capet, but now that I've gone from a macbook to a macbook pro, I'm not sure if I should continue with the Capetian dynasty for the name of my new computer (Robert the Pious?), or start a new dynasty (Carolingians?) - or perhaps my new computer is a feminine presence, and therefore needs the name of a historical lady. Hmm.
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/704153.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.
What I'm currently reading:
I've stopped in the middle of Giorgio Riello and Beverly Lemire, "East and West: Textiles and Fashion in Early Modern Europe," Journal of Social History (summer 2008), 887-916 for an internet break. I'm also in the process of a Two Towers reread.
What I've been reading:
I just finished Giorgio Riello, "The Globalization of Cotton Textiles: Indian Cottons, Europe, and the Atlantic World, 1600-1850" and Anne McCants, "Exotic Goods, Popular Consumption, and the Standard of Living: Thinking about Globalization in the Early Modern World." All this cotton and consumption is working up to my lecture on the (eighteenth-century) consumer revolution and the global origins of the industrial revolution for Friday. Of course, none of these articles turns out to be as much about the industrial revolution as I thought I remembered - I might be mixing them up with one or more talks I've heard Giorgio Riello give. Anyway, I also read Lynn Hunt, ed. The French Revolution and Human Rights yesterday for discussion with my students this morning. And I've been reading through my charters looking for mentions of monastic vocations or child oblations for my semester's seminar paper/dissertation chapter.
What I'm going to read next:
More articles for my lecture, including Audrey Douglas, "Cotton Textiles in England: the East India Company's Attempt to Exploit Developments in Fashion 1660-1721," and probably some other things TBD about the Industrial Revolution. Something on the technology side might be useful. I'm also going to reread the Communist Manifesto and some associated documents, and some documents on factory conditions during the Industrial Revolution, in preparation for next week's discussion. Also, I should keep going on the Two Towers, and come up with some things to read toward my seminar paper. But Friday's lecture is, obviously, currently the top priority.
In other news, I have acquired a space heater (last weekend was truly a weekend of buying ALL THE THINGS), because I do feel justified in complaining about the temperature of my room. It is poorly insulated and poorly heated, and under the current weather conditions I'm having trouble keeping it much above ten degrees celsius (50 fahrenheit). That's sort of unpleasant! But the space heater seems effective.
I also made a delicious pot of soup for supper tonight - this soup. I used the contents of a peppermint tea bag for the mint, and OM NOM NOM. This might be my new go-to veggie-bean-tomato soup with self-creating stock!
Finally, I dedicated several hours yesterday (and a small second-thoughts crisis that took the better part of three apple employees to resolve) to delivering and picking up my computers at the apple store for data transfer. But my new computer now contains all the learnings of Hughie of Blessed Memory and Placid Retirement! I spent some quality time today updating programs, because poor Hughie was having trouble assimilating updates in his last year or so, and now I think, barring unexpected issues with powerpoint, that I'm all switched over. That means I need to name my new computer! "Hughie" was short for Hugues Capet, but now that I've gone from a macbook to a macbook pro, I'm not sure if I should continue with the Capetian dynasty for the name of my new computer (Robert the Pious?), or start a new dynasty (Carolingians?) - or perhaps my new computer is a feminine presence, and therefore needs the name of a historical lady. Hmm.
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/704153.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.