March is now - meep - half over, and I am what they call behind. I'm especially behind at marking, and my state of paralyzing boredom concerning everything to do with the class I'm TAing is not helping. Which means, it's time for my rest-of-March master to-do list. As follows.

Academic Projects:

Draft of complete Dol-Combourg chapter (for March ( Read more... )

The first week of March is spring break at my current institution, and I'll be spending the balance of the week in the motherland, where I'm currently ensconced in Cormac's living room, putting together the draft of my Dol-Combourg dissertation chapter. It's time for a special spring break edition of my monthly master to-do list.

Academic projects ( Read more... )

I can't lie; Sherlock has been consuming my brain for the past few days, to the detriment of the things that I should be doing. It maaaay be a good thing that the last episode in the series is airing tomorrow... or it may be a bad thing, depending on how devastating it is ( 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... )

Aww man, sadness. I was all ready to watch the Canucks-Oilers game, which is on Hockey Night in Canada tonight, and which is probably the only Canucks game I'll get to see this season ( 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... )

Well, TMGIFFFFFF, for values of "F" that include "Friday" and "February." That was not a winning January, and I didn't close it out well. I ended up only getting about two hours of sleep last night because of my lecture for today, which I couldn't manage to make myself start substantively writing until around midnight last night. FAIL ( Read more... )

AAaaAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAAugh. I'm leaving to fly back to Boston on Tuesday night, and classes start a week from next Wednesday. I'm leaving around lunchtime today for Vancouver until early Sunday afternoon, and I won't be able to work while I'm gone ( Read more... )

Okay. Time to put on my big girl twenty-minute playlist of concentrated awesome and reply to the emails I got over the weekend from two of my future students (two weeks before the semester starts, sigh). I'd groan and say keeeeeeeeeners, but they're both volleyball players, so I suspect their coach put them up to it ( Read more... )

I'm back from la basse-Bretagne! It was a pretty good trip, and I'm glad I went. More detail hopefully later, but right now I've got many things to do, by which I mean paper revisions that I really don't want to do, and decisions to make, and chores.

To do today:
• Go grocery shopping (get jar of tomatoes, a veggie, possibly eggs, bread, ( Read more... )