I'm in the Seattle airport, and I have two hours of layover left, and I'm BORED, and I'm sleepy, and erstwhile British advisor A is mocking me on facebook ( 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... )

And now, coming to you from Vancouver and Vancouver Airport's free wireless.

VANCOUVAIR ON A DE LA PLUIE. ÉNORMEMENT DE LA PLUIE.

I was going to settle down and read David Nirenberg, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages, but I've just discovered, thanks to Vancouver Airport's free wireless, that erstwhile ( Read more... )

So, I survived the day ( Read more... )

Have managed, unless he finds a way to worm out of it in the next two hours and forty minutes, to arrange to have lunch with Erstwhile British Advisor prof C (henceforth to be known as Erstwhile British Advisor A, since I'm trying to lose the "professor" at his request) today at Harvard Square. Eep. Of course, that's assuming that the combined ( Read more... )

I have monstrously wronged erstwhile British advisor prof C. He emailed me back! He's suggesting lunch sometime the week after next. Now excuse me, I have to go and write him back into my will ( Read more... )

Now, if I could just decide what to wear, I could get in the shower and then head over to campus to take up my spot in Bapst in the bay with the stained glass window depicting "prose" and Saint Jerome writing the Vulgate left-handed, and finish reading Naissance de la Bretagne (30 more pages!), write my review of it, and carry on with my life. Hmm ( Read more... )

So, among other things - many other things, since I've managed to be both busy and somewhat productive today, somehow - I went to a really interesting talk this afternoon with cubicle-mate E ( Read more... )

*Sigh* Circumstances have aligned mightily against me today. First of all, amyheartssiroc posted a compendium of Prof C quotes, which were awesome, but far, far too nostalgia-inducing. Then, this evening, the Colgate Annual Fund called to extort my money. The girl who called me turned out to be one of the lucky, lucky people who's going to London in the ( Read more... )

So, a quick rundown of what I've been up to in the last week plus various and sundry other notes:

Strawberries: I picked about 210 pounds of them this past week for a running total of around 290 pounds. I also got paid last Wednesday and would have gotten overpaid by $90, except that I straightened it all out and gave back the extra to K, the ( Read more... )