Suddenly, it's rainy, grey, and November, and I'm decisively behind at things. I've discovered, however that AcWriMo (academic writing month, a national novel writing month knockoff) is a thing. I'm not going to sign up officially, but I am going to try to implement it in my life as I finish up my monastic vocations and careers chapter and work on ( Read more... )

It's August, and I'm back from all my academic adventures, which means it's time to settle in and work. Here's my to-do list for the month:

Major academic projects:

Vocations(/donations?) chapter
Translation for prof D
Learning German

( Vocations chapter )

I've made it to New Haven, and so far, Yale is a pretty daunting place with a lot of locked gates and little information about what's going on, although the fact that I have yet to eat or drink anything since a muffin and coffee on the train instead of lunch might have something to do with that impression. In any case, I'm sitting in the courtyard ( Read more... )

C'est parti! Which is to say (disclaimer: possibly by horrifically misusing the expression) that I've had my first morning in the little CERHIO library, and it's just like I remember it being too. I reintroduced myself to the librarian, who is still very nice despite my nervous butchering of French, had him guide me to the database of master's ( Read more... )

It's been all reading memes, to-do lists, and whining around here, hasn't it? Well, that's going to continue! I'm here to tell you about my current reading, and to pay a visit to my to-do-as-much-as-I-can-in-the-rest-of-August list, now a sticky post hereThat said, it's not all reading and whining. I spent an enjoyable afternoon yesterday at the ( Read more... )

Gnuuuh. I've spent today - a holiday Monday here - putting properties mentioned in my charters into my database so as to facilitate my analysis of the various charters and their various copies. It has involved a lot of googling, some of it quite dubious, in order to identify the locations of the properties ( Read more... )

At this point, I have more or less concluded my packing for tomorrow's bus-expedition up to Quebec, where, if you remember, I'm going to help celebrate my youngest brother's graduation ( Read more... )

Since posting about my haircut on Saturday afternoon, I've spent a large part of my weekend cooking. I made this shaved asparagus pizza (thanks to
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Welp, either I've come over allergic to something that put in its first appearance in the air this evening, or I'm getting sick, neither of which is optimal given what my next two weeks less one day look like (two discussions, three lectures, a review session, and a seminar paper/dissertation chapter). Augh ( Read more... )

So (insert obligatory OMG how is it Wednesday already here), in a continuation of the series of posts I was threatening to write about teaching giving me ALL THE FEELS, ALL THE FEELS. This week is renaissance humanism week in my class - of course, with a side of medieval-renaissance continuity. On Monday, I went all C. Stephen Jaeger on my ( Read more... )