I can't say I've been very productive today - I stayed up altogether too late reading last night, and just as I was trying to go to sleep a protracted raccoon fight broke out in my driveway/the neighbours' backyard, which is to say right outside my window. Then the garbage trucks arrived at the restaurants on the corner of Oak Square, and yeah, not ( Read more... )

I have cooked ALL THE THINGS (root vegetable-black bean soup yesterday; buttermilk bread, apple cupcakes, and the prep for crockpot squash-black bean chili) since yesterday evening, and I've laid in a solid supply of groceries, and done some databasifying. Not all the work I had to get done this weekend by any means, but meh. I'm off to start my ( Read more... )

I think I can very tentatively say (knock wood, which according to an interesting article I read recently, is effective not because it calls forth supernatural powers, but rather, because the brain-body connection is real, and it falls into a category of motions of warding-off that have real cognitive effects. Interestingly, knocking toward ( Read more... )

Today, I feel in honour bound to post a correction to a post I made to facebook this morning.

Here is the erroneous version I posted of an introductory formula from the ninth-century charters in the first quire of the cartulary of the abbey of Saint-Sauveur de Redon:

Mundi termino adpropinquante ruinis crescantibus certa signa manifestantur... ( Read more... )

I'm here to report the successful conclusion of my shopping trip yesterday. I got both the jeans and the camisole I went out for, plus some unexciting but important new underwear and some pleasing new cardigans (although I'm now wondering if I should have gotten the next biggest size due to fit in the shoulders). Win ( Read more... )

Oops, it's been a while! Since I updated last, I've been both unproductive and out of town - the latter being my trip to Vancouver with Morgayne last Monday to Thursday. Other than that, work? La la la, what work? There is only stress-reading Sherlock fic ( Read more... )

Whoooops. Welp, my fingers just slipped and I bought this jacket. In green. I'm weak when it comes to awesome jackets. And jackets in this style are usually leather ( Read more... )

So, today I finally took the plunge and bought the new computer I've been promising I'd buy myself this January (I can no longer run some programs I need on my old computer, and also its trackpad doesn't work under warm conditions now including room temperature in the new building). I am actually typing this on it, because instead of ordering it ( 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... )

Ooo, I just discovered that the objects of my abject boot-lust all fall have gone on sale to the tune of $70.00 off their obscene-yet-still-perversely-tempting original price.

These boots are now on their way to me for further assessment. OMG LUSSSSST. They may or may not arrive before I leave for the holidays, but did I mention abject boot-lust ( Read more... )