I'm still here after my night of translation, which actually concluded sometime around 4:30. Then I went to bed until ten (I'm not sure I actually fell asleep, but I probably did), got up, checked everything over and sent it all of to prof FM shortly after eleven. Now I'm shakily eating tofu-ricotta tortellini from a pouch (or rather, I've put ( Read more... )

Eep! The days are currently going very fast, considering that I'm not accomplishing at maximum levels. I can't believe it's Wednesday again already. It's two weeks since I arrived in France! And I have yet to visit the archives ( Read more... )

I'm leaving for France two weeks from now, almost to the minute, and... ack. My inordinate sense of panic is not inclined to be articulate. The fact that I got an email this morning from the research group I'm going to be affiliated with in Rennes, listing their year's worth of medieval studies seminars/study days, definitely doesn't help. It ( Read more... )

Here it is: my comprehensive list of everything I need to do by the end of August in order to be ready to move out of Boston and fly home to Vernon for three weeks before I move to Rennes for eight months. It will be lurking at the top of my journal until the end of August, and spawning (hopefully) daily spinoffs.

( Visa stuff... )

My occasionally-cranky digestive system is warning me in no uncertain terms this morning that things are getting down to the wire as far as packing up my life in Boston for the year. I'm hoping it will settle down enough in the space of me posting this that I'll be able to go running in order to calm down the HIDEOUS FANGY BUTTERFLIES that are ( Read more... )

I've been busy for the past few days, getting down with my bad... to-do list. I'm making progress! I don't have anything particularly exciting to report, though. Mostly I've been harnessing my profound desire not to email people in Rennes to make myself massively productive on other fronts. It's working pretty well! Plus, I just got my act ( Read more... )

Hello, lj peeps! I'm not dead! I'm not dead of having my heart trampled by game 7 of the finals, although it is still a little achy, and might stay that way until the new season starts to reassure me. I actually think that, although the Canucks were the better team overall, the Bruins won the mental game, not to mention the media game, and were ( Read more... )

I'm trying to keep it together in the last six hours before game seven (I have shit to do!!), but mostly what I'm coming up with is things like:

We come now to the very brink, where hope and despair are akin. To waver is to fall.

and

Stand, men of the West! Stand and Wait! This is the hour of doom!Except of course that I don't want the ( Read more... )

Signs point to I'm not going to get any work done at all this summer. Signs point to I'm going to spend the whole summer looking for a place to stay in Paris in the fall and fighting the French bureaucracy to get a visa. I've certainly spent all day today so far emailing people about the former and trying to find information that doesn't exist on ( Read more... )

Okay, to update succinctly before I go and put in a load of laundry and go to bed:

There were severe thunderstorms and at least two tornadoes that killed four people in Massachusetts today. Although we had some pretty alarming thunder and lighting and torrential rains in Boston this evening, the tornadoes were thankfully halfway across the state ( Read more... )