Oh man, so Boston is going to be largely shut down tomorrow, including all public transit except for a few buses (none of which actually come to campus and only one of which comes within range of the campus shuttle bus), and more than half of the parking on campus is also going to be closed, and the governor has declared a state of emergency and ( Read more... )

I think I've packed as much as I can tonight, and my room-cleaning efforts (which are going to be tragically perfunctory, in the final analysis) have stalled as I wait for the last clothes on my drying-rack to be dry enough to pack ( Read more... )

FWUMP. Since I (still) don't have a bed to flop down on dramatically, I'm flopping down dramatically on the Internet. It has been a long day! I've given my exam, once for a student who had to take it early and once for my second section, and graded that section's in-class portion (there's a paper component that they handed in when they came to ( Read more... )

I am debating cancelling my class tomorrow, in light of the fact that Boston is due to get sideswiped by Hurricane Sandy, and although here we won't get anything hurricane-force, it is supposed to be very windy. Debate with me, O readers.

+ I am not actually done my lecture for tomorrow. Cancelling class would mean avoiding pulling an all- ( Read more... )

My last hour: a drama in four five parts, to be followed by supper:

~

The monks who wrote the foundation charter of La Trinité, Combourg:

"These gifts were most honorably made at Combourg with very many people, whose names we have taken care to include in this document, listening and watching as witnesses."

Étienne Baluze, the early-modern ( Read more... )

I suppose it's really time to post an update that isn't in the form of a to-do list, although the to-do lists have been effectively capturing my life in the past few days. I've actually been managing something that looks a little like... productivity. Unfortunately, it's not that exciting ( Read more... )

None of my fellow medievalist nerds are around right now (they're all off teaching the twentieth century as is the indiscriminate custom for all teaching assistants and teaching fellows of current department), so it's you, medievalists on the internet ( Read more... )

Hmm. The crank seems to be a little bit back. It's possibly related to the fact that we're having another protracted and deluging rainstorm that isn't supposed to end until Wednesday, and probably also related to the fact that teaching on Wednesday is starting to loom, and even though the topic is WWI, the collection of documents I have to work ( Read more... )

I'm currently making like Peter Rabbit and drinking chamomile tea and marking papers. The tea is for that queasy feeling you get when you make yourself do something you really don't want to do... Well, actually it's for my cough, and for the comfort of having something hot to drink to soothe the mental anguish of making myself do something I ( Read more... )

Whoa. Whoa. My current institution of much reading and many Jesuits has acquired a subscription to the Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale at Brepols. And the International Medieval Bibliography has completely redesigned itself.

OMG.

It takes you straight to the hitlist when you search. No more accidentally telling it to search and ( Read more... )