In tonight's news of me running around France, I've been running around France! On Saturday I went to Châteaubriant, yesterday I took the guided tour of the Palais du Parlement de Bretagne in Rennes, and tonight I'm in Vannes in preparation for going to the archives tomorrow. My original plan wasn't to stay here overnight, but I rethought my ( Read more... )

It's time to cross one more thing off my week's to-do list before I declare it done with and make my new one for this coming week. My post about a week ago Saturday in Nantes! Probably mostly for my own remembering purposes, at this point, but still.

I arrived just after eleven, ( with no clear plan... )

I'm having a snack and posting before I eat ALL THE THINGS have supper and launch into what is threatening to be either a busy or a slackertastic evening, because once again, I have things to post about ( Read more... )

Well, despite paper-writing, this has been a much nicer Hallowe'en in Rennes than last year's Hallowe'en in Rennes and not-Rennes! This time last year, I was flipping out over the mystery insect bite I got in the sketchy hotel Marek and I were staying at in the Montgermont Décoparc. That day we also explored the deserted Rennes city center, which ( Read more... )

This post is unabashedly all about my new userpic, as seen here. It may result in me being marked for the circle of hell reserved for small-scale violators of archive user agreements, but I can't help it. I've reached folio 77 verso in my transcription of the twelfth-century Liber Albus Sancti Florentii from my private-use-only photos of it. ( Read more... )

Another day, another livejournal post. I'm back, now two full weeks (minus an hour and a half or so) out from my return to Boston, with the next, and hopefully final, installment of my overview of my trip to Brittany. So, following yesterday's five highlights:

( Four lows... )

It's now two full weeks since I left Brittany, and I'm a little sadder about that than I anticipated being while I was there. I keep having to stop what I'm doing to gaze nostalgically at my giant wall map of Brittany in my office, and search out all the places I visited and passed through...

So, after the fashion of my And me one traveller post ( Read more... )

So, the good news is that I've actually started planning my comprehensive week-in-Brittany update! The bad news is that it's currently in un-elaborated list form and lurking as a private entry until I finish it. That won't be tonight, because in an effort to get up at a reasonable hour tomorrow morning (something I have continuously failed at ( Read more... )

Pursuant to my last post, I am pleased to report that, although I now own a pair of cold-weather running tights, 9 degrees Celsius/49 degrees Fahrenheit, is not so cold as to actually require them. Since a major component of me not managing to get out running between Wednesday evening when I bought them and now is that I don't want to wear them (I ( Read more... )

ACK. Apparently the combination of France, Haskins, and being done with Haskins and back from France have killed my desire to communicate with the outside world ( Read more... )