It's my last morning in Rennes, and I'm getting ready to check out of my residence, which I have to do in the next seventeen minutes. Everything is packed, and I've managed to consolidate everything into one carry-on bag plus my suitcase and purse, as demanded by my flight to London (I flew to France with two carry-on bags). I have a 23-kilo ( Read more... )

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... )

In tonight's installment of glamorous life in France, sink laundry. Sink laundry brought to you by Casino Gel Main Express, which at this point, like quite a few other French things, has become an anchor for many strong smell-memories for me. I've washed my underwear in it many times over three trips to France between 2010 and now! It's not quite ( Read more... )

It's June, and I have even more to do:

Major Projects:

Getting ready for my Rennes/Leeds trip
Library/archival work in Rennes
Donations/vocations dissertation chapter
Writing Leeds paper
Translation for Prof D
Prep for RBS manuscript seminar

( Getting ready for my trip: the academic stuff )

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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Well, it's been a while, and that's mostly down to the fact that last week turned out to be an unexpected week of doom (week of unexpected doom?). It was my final week of lectures, the first one on the Seven Years' War and the second one on the American Revolution, so I wasn't particularly worried going in. I was more or less like "an excuse to ( Read more... )

To do list for today:

• Pain perdu with carabreizh sauce
• Do ALL the laundry
• Clean ALL the things
• Pack ALL the things
• Send ALL the emails
• Decide if I'm taking public transit or a taxi à la gare demain matin
• Eat ALL the remaining food

*HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDES DON'T WANNOOOOOOOOOOOOO*

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I'm now done all the research that's going to get done while I'm in France, and first thing tomorrow morning I'll start gearing up seriously to (whimper) leave. But before I do that, I must report on my progress with my final-five-weeks-in-Rennes not-a-bucket list. I haven't done everything that's on it, obviously, but I haven't done badly either ( Read more... )

*Whimper*Three weeks from now, assuming all goes as I've unfortunately planned, I'll be at De Gaulle waiting for my flight back to North America. Sigh. This fills me with distress because I have so much to do before I leave - which certainly doesn't help with me not wanting to leave. COME BACK, YEAR IN FRANCE, LET ME LOVE YOU PROPERLY ( Read more... )

I've (metaphorically) landed in Paris! Actually, my train arrived yesterday around eleven in the morning, so I've been here for almost a day, but whatever. I seem to have done pretty well for myself accommodation-wise. The apartment I've rented is pocket-sized, and the entry stairwell is a little grotty, but it's otherwise cute and totally ( Read more... )