Oh man, so Boston is going to be largely shut down tomorrow, including all public transit except for a few buses (none of which actually come to campus and only one of which comes within range of the campus shuttle bus), and more than half of the parking on campus is also going to be closed, and the governor has declared a state of emergency and ( Read more... )

Today has been notable mostly for the extreme vileness of the weather. I spent most of the day in various stages of damp, mostly because both my backpack and my raincoat have become markedly less waterproof in the past couple of months. The water dripping off my umbrella during my walk to campus soaked my backpack, and the water that my soaked ( 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'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... )

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... )

Whoops, I actually almost missed my birthday! ... the birthday post I meant to make today, I mean. I have now walked the earth for twenty-nine years, which means that I've walked the earth for approximately six more years than we got inches of snow in my neighbourhood during Boston's fifth-largest recorded snowstorm. It was a pretty excellent ( Read more... )

Well, I got cheated out of a birthday snowstorm in 2010, and had to teach on my birthday after it looking like I might get a snow day, but this year appears to be making up for it with a pre-birthday snowpocalypse (my birthday is on Sunday). As of around 10:00 this evening, my current institution of higher learning and Jesuits is closed tomorrow, ( Read more... )

It's a somewhat chilly Wednesday, but any real complaints about it being -12 celsius here right now and also this morning are pathetic in the face of it being -25 with a windchill of -38 celsius, or almost -40 fahrenheit in Quebec where all my siblings live), so no whining about the weather today. It's Wednesday, and I have been, am, and will be ( Read more... )

This evening, my original plan was to write ALL the midterm exam ID term marking guides for the epic exam-marking session I'm having tomorrow, and then to make ALL THE EDITS to my lecture for Friday, and to real ALL THE PAGES in Mohawk Saint: Katherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits in preparation for discussion on Monday, but that is not what I've ( Read more... )

I am debating cancelling my class tomorrow, in light of the fact that Boston is due to get sideswiped by Hurricane Sandy, and although here we won't get anything hurricane-force, it is supposed to be very windy. Debate with me, O readers.

+ I am not actually done my lecture for tomorrow. Cancelling class would mean avoiding pulling an all- ( Read more... )