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... )

Hmm, will tomorrow's lecture, "1848 Around the World" (with "1848" standing in for revolutions and anti-colonial resistance c. 1840-1860) be the one where I manage to work in Louis Riel and the Red River Resistance/Northwest Resistance? Time to find out ( 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 owe ALL the updates - yes, litterally ALL the updates - but that probably isn't going to make posting them happen. For now, I'll say that I finally managed to talk on the phone with advisor R this afternoon after many attempts, mishaps, and wrong-number adventures. The most salient point I'm taking away from our conversation, besides things like ( Read more... )

I can now report that my day of playing hooky from the archives and running off to Dinan yesterday was a smashing success, which I've followed up with a nice day today to make up a good weekend! Obviously, the weekend isn't technically over yet (and in fact, it's a long weekend in France, the fourth this May), but tomorrow and Monday have to be ( Read more... )

This morning I went and saw prof FM and my accumulating pile of books in his office. These are the books I'm getting from his research group in exchange for translating his grant proposal last December. They've now almost all arrived and they are very beautiful and colorful and I can't wait to have some alone time with them. Sadly, I had to love ( Read more... )

With the aid of my most excellent playlist (now edited to remove the Evanescence, because unlike when my friends used to listen to it in undergrad, I actually paid attention to the lyrics yesterday, and they are seriously disturbing, so I've replaced it with a cheerful song about a hanging), I've made significant progress on my Kalamazoo paper! I' ( Read more... )

My (savory) pie of the week, beet greens and goat cheese, is in the oven, and starting to smell verrrry good. The considerable amount of chèvre I consumed while I was crumbling it into the pie was very good too! I hope that makes up for the fact that the eggs were definitely on the old side - two days past their best-before date. They smelled ( Read more... )

This week, ever since Monday's fun with charters, has mostly been pretty meh, hence my lack of updating. Today, however, has been pretty good! At the moment, I have a train ticket to Paris for Sunday morning, people's advice about the Bibliothèque nationale de France, a new flavor of tisane (mint-eucalyptus), a new Nicolas Le Floch mystery (the ( Read more... )