It's August and I'm home from medieval manuscript summer camp! I did terribly as far as posting about my doings in July, so I'm going to start to remedy that by posting right now ( Read more... )

As of this morning, I'm back in Boston. I'm very behind at posting, but that's not going to change tonight. I'm about to head out to a New Year's potluck hosted by former fellow grad students GW and former office-mate LB-W. Other than the New Year's Eve I spent on a flight to Paris two years ago, this is the first time I haven't spent NYE with my ( Read more... )

Going downtown to go jeans-and-nude-camisole shopping because if not today, when? A new pair of dark-wash jeans would go a long way toward limiting my daily sartorial panic ( Read more... )

Oops, I almost missed posting because I was facebook-chatting with Mel, who's currently living in Oxford and working on her PhD, and who has taken to messaging me in the evenings here sometimes, because she keeps the oddest of hours. But chatting with her was good, because as I was attempting to say yesterday, I need more talking to people (who ( Read more... )

Ugh, it's one of the disgustingly hot and humid summer days that are among the many, many reasons that I'm fleeing Boston for my native semidesert (once the various local minor floodwaters recede, anyway) region of the motherland. Unfortunately, I have to prepare for my trip home to more clement less humid parts under these conditions ( Read more... )

I just got back from a super-nerdy expedition to the Boston Museum of Science with fellow medievalist JK, who is a member, and used her membership benefits take me to see a film at the Mugar Omnimax theatre there. This film, the Rocky Mountain Express, aka a Vancouver-BC-to-Kannanaskis-Country-Alberta tour of the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline ( Read more... )

In happier news, it's my grandma's 95th birthday today! I gave her a call earlier to wish her a happy birthday, which meant that I was also able to reassure her that I was never in any danger today (I live about 1.5 miles in a straight line or two miles' drive from where they finally caught the second suspect). I wouldn't say I get all my genetic ( Read more... )

WHOA, SHIT. Pursuant to my post last night, I just woke up to a text from my current institution's emergency services: "Due to public safety concerns, [current institution] is closed and classes are cancelled until further notice. Remain indoors ( Read more... )

Welp, either I've come over allergic to something that put in its first appearance in the air this evening, or I'm getting sick, neither of which is optimal given what my next two weeks less one day look like (two discussions, three lectures, a review session, and a seminar paper/dissertation chapter). Augh ( Read more... )

I'm at the airport! I'm on my way up to Quebec for the Easter break via Toronto, and I'm actually flying out of Boston Logan terminal E instead of Air Canada's three gates in terminal B. Also, I'm cheating on Air Canada with Porter Airlines. I feel so important lurking in the international terminal! On the other hand, the international terminal ( Read more... )