I'm back in Vernon for the holidays (I arrived back last Thursday as planned), I've finished marking my exams, and I've made the annual Santa cookies with the assistance of Z, L, and Cormac and Marek in the decorating phases. Now I'm in the process of acquiring and wrapping my presents for people, visiting with everyone, and trying to breathe ( 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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In the ongoing process of cleaning, unpacking, and organizing my room following last weekend's furniture acquisitions (and the addition of a desk from office-mate JK yesterday), I found a bunch of papers I wrote at various points during my Colgate career and evidently brought to Boston at some point. Features include a series of A- and B+ marks on ( Read more... )

I'm still here - it's just that last weekend was insanely busy, and this week, beginning on Tuesday, has been intentionally and epically not-busy because of the Thanksgiving break. After my all-nighter a week ago Thursday night, I proceeded to spend last Saturday mostly in bed, and then spent all day Sunday and another all-nighter finishing my ( Read more... )

I'm in Boston, and I live! After a reasonable night of sleep, I can even detect my brain again, although it feels a little like it's been hit by a truck. But that's a massive improvement on yesterday's two brain cells floating around in a massive void, unable to connect ( Read more... )

I seem to have weathered the phase of despair over my Haskins paper, and hopefully I'll be able to avoid another one. I now have a rough working outline, an experimental scrivener project dedicated to it, and a thesis statement I can build the paper around. I started some introductory writing this morning, although I think it will mostly belong ( Read more... )

ARGH, I failed to undertake a crucial pocket-check of my running jacket before I put it in the wash, and now the dryer, and all the clothes in it, is full of tiny bits of the kleenex I was carrying for my cold-weather runny nose. Oops ( Read more... )

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... Oh, wow. I seem to have managed to get myself invited for American Thanksgiving with Erstwhile British Advisor A and associated clan. Again. My reaction is... not that different. Nor, probably, will be my reply, although I must check about vegetarian options before I commit ( Read more... )

So, tomorrow I'm going to that symposium at Harvard on cultural transfer in the early medieval Mediterranean. It should be interesting! Also, erstwhile advisor A is supposed to be there, although I'll only believe it when I see it. But it would be nice to see him - especially in a roomful of strangers and other assorted big-deal medievalists at ( Read more... )

Well, today grew in its unfolding, from very inauspicious beginnings. My poor iPhone began the morning running sluggishly and making alarming sad hard drive noises, and I began the morning in a mighty panic that in content was about (what else) The Fellowship but in origin was more about having to lead introductory discussion sections today. I ( Read more... )