Uuuurgh, my alarm went off this morning while I was dreaming about something (I can't remember what), and I'm not sure but I think I groggily half-dialed my phone before succeeding in resetting my alarm for half an hour later, at which point I was still having the same dream, so what I'm saying is that waking up this morning didn't go smoothly. I ( Read more... )

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... )

Hello! After having surreptitiously being replaced by a cranky and hormonal evil twin for the past week and a half, I am back! Now I'm being brought to you by substantially higher doses of sodium naproxen than the information on the bottle recommends, but at least the off-kilter machinations of my reproductive system are no longer periodically ( Read more... )

So, the good news is that I've actually started planning my comprehensive week-in-Brittany update! The bad news is that it's currently in un-elaborated list form and lurking as a private entry until I finish it. That won't be tonight, because in an effort to get up at a reasonable hour tomorrow morning (something I have continuously failed at ( Read more... )

Today walked a fine line of almost being wiped out by cramps. I successfully kept myself on this side of concentration-destroying pain with slightly more than recommended doses of alleve and extra-strength tylenol, but I wasn't greatly productive even so. I didn't (mea culpa) get any writing done; however, I did accomplish some very necessary ( Read more... )

UGH! UGH! UGH!! And also AAAAAUGH! I began my post-TA life last night with the most hideous teaching anxiety dream ever! I slept through half of two of my sections! And I hadn't prepared! And all my students left my 1:00 pm section before I got there because I slept through half of it! And I hadn't had a shower! And I may have been in my ( Read more... )

Just a quick word or few hundred here before I go and collapse into bed (I got up at six this morning and I'm feeling it) to let the intarnetz at large know that I still live and that I've been laboriously reclaiming my academic productivity this week. I'm working on the rewrite of my dissertation proposal, so I don't actually have anything ( Read more... )

I'm back in Boston after my extended Easter weekend in Quebec, and currently deep in the deep deep depths of marking my students' papers on how the Holocaust could have happened. Of course, keeping my nose to the grindstone and churning through more of them would be far more efficient than updating my LJ, but efficiency is not my middle name when ( Read more... )

I survived the nineteenth century and its political ideologies today. I wound up finding unexpected help by whining about my difficult lot on erstwhile British advisor's facebook. He suggested I run class as a debate, and by that point I was just desperate enough to consider his advice. What I actually ended up doing was offering each of my ( Read more... )

In the interests of not dwelling on how unproductive I was last night (and tonight, for that matter, but tonight was planned), let me tell you about the spectacularly not-random dreams I've had in the last two nights ( Read more... )