Augh. This past week has been failtastically unproductive, and now it's noon on Saturday, and I have to leave my house around 6:30 am on Tuesday morning for my trip home. Here's what I have to do between now and then:

( To do before I leave for the holidays )

Today has been notable mostly for the extreme vileness of the weather. I spent most of the day in various stages of damp, mostly because both my backpack and my raincoat have become markedly less waterproof in the past couple of months. The water dripping off my umbrella during my walk to campus soaked my backpack, and the water that my soaked ( Read more... )

My big monthly to-do list isn't doing it for me right now. I need a small, more specific to-do list for today. One that can get me dressed and gently usher me through the rest of the weekend.

( To do, Sunday October (gulp) 19, 2014 )

Eight days before my thirtieth birthday, innumerable tiny bits of kleenex stuck to all my laundry are here to remind me that I need to check all the pockets of things I put into the washer, and that adulthood is a process not a ticky-box after a certain number of birthdays.

Sigh. Onward with the folding, the the lint-roller, and the broom like an ( Read more... )

Welp, despite good intentions and a reasonably timely start, today hasn't been productive. I've secured my food supply for tomorrow's breakfast and lunch and caught up on my email, but other than that, yeah, no. The fact that I've been feeling sort of nebulously not-good (in a slightly-stuffed-up and breathing-is-somehow-more-difficult-than- ( Read more... )

What with one thing and another (following the Rob Ford spectacle on twitter being one of the things), today hasn't been an epically productive one. I started it, and seem to be ending it, fighting a headache, and most of what I have to show for it is having stood around in a lot of people's doorways chatting with them, and talking to RB in our ( Read more... )

When I was just a wee ABD, full of strength and joy who had yet to abandon my first dissertation proposal or look at any of my sources in manuscript, I made my first trip to the archives. I went to Angers in the fall of 2010 to look at the archives of the abbey of Saint-Florent de Saumur in the Archives départementales de Maine-et-Loire, and I made ( Read more... )

Meep and ugh, I had a predictable but still terrible experience at the hairdresser's today, that was made worse by the fact that it was partially my own fault for being such a doormat. I finally made an appointment to get my hair cut, because I've been wanting to try having really short hair again (and if after a shitty semester isn't the time for ( Read more... )

Well, TMGIFFFFFF, for values of "F" that include "Friday" and "February." That was not a winning January, and I didn't close it out well. I ended up only getting about two hours of sleep last night because of my lecture for today, which I couldn't manage to make myself start substantively writing until around midnight last night. FAIL ( Read more... )

We interrupt this first week of 2013 to say that... You know that swearing on the precious to get a flu shot as soon as I got back to Boston thing? Yeah, about that... Over the holidays my mom and sister have had what they claimed was a weird cold, but they are not hypochondriacs like I am, and also, they didn't get an email from university health ( Read more... )