Christmas didn't suck! It was actually pretty good, both in terms of the swag (we decided to do presents for real this year and it was kind of awesome) and in terms of spending time with la famille. Yay! I now have five more days at home, into which I need to squish as much hanging out with people as possible, as well as probably the total ( Read more... )

I'm now at De Gaulle, and just about to go and get ready to board my flight. So far so good in res: train to Paris, Paris metro, hotel overnight, Paris metro/RER, the weather. Hopefully things will continue to go equally smoothly ( Read more... )

Eep! How is it December 10th already? So far I've only semi-completed one of my three December projects. The translation project is due the 15th, and shouldn't be hard (unless my first version totally sucks) to get done by then. I should really have a revised version of my paper done by the time I leave too, which is more problematic. I leave ( Read more... )

This is a placeholder post for my dear yuletide writer letter. Nothing to see here at the moment.Okay. Yuletide assignments are out, so I can't put off writing this any longer. Ideally, I'm also going to make it to the archives in time for the 1:15 (or more likely 1:45) levée de documents, which should hopefully prevent it eating up my whole ( Read more... )

I'm back in Rennes (and have been since Thursday afternoon) following a sleepless trip back to France, for which I lay the blame squarely on advisor R. I was telling her about the various non-academic things I've been reading on my iPad, including the (French-language) memoir of a missionary in northern British Columbia in the late-nineteenth ( Read more... )

Happy New Year! I've finally joined most of the rest of the planet in 2011, after a quiet but enjoyable evening of Scattergories, local ice wine, and snacks with the parental units and Morgayne.

Now I'm about to go to bed, but first, the Yuletide reveal!

My contribution, under my AO3 username Monksandbones, as I think some of you suspected, was ( Read more... )

ALSO: Beowulf: Gamol-léac.

The warrior your Geats could smell like, aka the GREATEST CROSSOVER EVER. Someone, somewhere, is a diabolical genius.

Now that Christmas is over, Yuletide! I've only just started browsing the archive (which seems, this year, not to include very many fandoms that I'm familiar with), but I come with some preliminary recs, and of course, to rec the story I received!

So, first of all, I received a lovely Brother Cadfael fic, Unexpected Gift. It's the Hugh Berengar/ ( Read more... )

... Aaaaand, uploaded! With an hour and forty-five minutes to spare!

I'd go and sleep now, but I might be too excited. Despite many moments of doubt, I ended up being quite pleased with my story! I also noticed that the gift written for me is already lurking in the archive. Is it Yuletide yet?

Edited to add: IS IT YULETIDE YET??

I only have one small section left to write on my Yuletide fic! I'm about to read through it and check the punctuation! I'm both nervous and excited about it, but more to the point, it is still more than five hours until the deadline. This is huge! I started writing more than three days ahead, and it seems likely that I won't be posting it in a ( Read more... )