So by the way, I live. There hasn't been much of excitement going on here - things are generally enjoyable but not dramatic. I've eaten a number of delicious baguettes, and lately, some pastries, and I have some hand-washing to do if I want clean socks tomorrow, and I've been going to the library and reading a lot, and the Canucks are 1-1-1 in ( Read more... )

ACK. ACK. Yesterday France seemed all sorted out, and earlier this morning, I had what seemed to be an email confirming that it was all a matter of waiting for official confirmation of housing in August. Now I've got another email, from someone else, suggesting that my situation is complicated beyond her comprehension, but that she doesn't think ( 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... )

So, following my last post of total paper and life anguish, I live. I live, and for the moment the desire to drop out of grad school and go and live in a box at the bottom of a hole under a rock and flagellate myself for a couple of years, after which I might consider myself fit to rejoin society at a level of intellectual responsibility more ( Read more... )

As those of you who've witnessed what is actually only a small percentage of my whining and frustration on facebook already know, I've spent the past two days doing extensive FileMaker Pro tutorials and thinking about my database. The tutorials took ages, mostly because they were so intensely boring that I needed extensive internet-breaks between ( Read more... )

Argh. I just finished reading an article that, in an irritating and insipid (and were I to be nasty, I would say particularly French) way... anticipates the paper I'm planning to write for advisor R's seminar this semester about the development and "social meaning(s)" of Saint-Florent's property in eleventh-century Brittany. Not only that, but it ( Read more... )

I think I can safely say, at the approximate end of it, that this has been among my least productive weeks ever. My lack of accomplishment for the week was totally predictable, but I'm a little more concerned about the fact that my desire to do anything hasn't yet started to resurrect itself. And I have huge amounts of work to do -- which, come ( Read more... )

So, Marek and I are in Rennes... sort of. Among other things I've learned on this trip, like not bringing a second suitcase, however small and light both are, and that anyone who wants to travel and do research in France should do it before their twenty-sixth birthday, I've learned that it's better not to get hotel recommendations from people on ( Read more... )

To Do, August 2010

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So, I've just spent the afternoon (ALL AFTERNOON) doing some light skimming of Jean-Yves Guiomar, Bretonism: Breton Historians in the Nineteenth CenturyHOMG ( Read more... )