So, Haskins is over, and while it didn't reach the sublime heights of awesomeness of last year, it did leave me feeling like I didn't know what to do with my post-France life when it ended this afternoon. I got as far as finding peanut butter in Star Market after I left campus with fellow grad student SS, and started to feel very feeble and ( Read more... )

I am back, I have slept, and now with no rest for the jet-lagged I am trying to decide what I can wear to the first day of the Haskins Society Conference without opening my suitcases, or at least, without delving too deeply into them. I will decide what to do with my stuff later. For now, it's time to break into my winter clothes boxes (it is a ( Read more... )

I have now made it to Montreal, where I am sitting at my gate. My flight was supposed to take off half an hour ago, but it's delayed because of issues with weather/air traffic control in Boston. In another hour, we'll find out what the deal is. Hopefully that will involve getting to Boston tonight, because I'm not sure what I'll do otherwise. ( Read more... )

Well, I started the day by going for a run along the seawall in Saint-Malo, and now, some mad packing, three trains, two pastries, and a sandwich (and coffee in the Quartier Latin with a former student of Prof G's and another sandwich and a pot of yogurt) later, I'm back in Paris in preparation for my trip back to Boston tomorrow. I suppose I ( Read more... )

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So, Marek and I are in Rennes... sort of. Among other things I've learned on this trip, like not bringing a second suitcase, however small and light both are, and that anyone who wants to travel and do research in France should do it before their twenty-sixth birthday, I've learned that it's better not to get hotel recommendations from people on ( Read more... )

I'm in Vannes! I live! So does Marek, and we're going to Rennes tomorrow!

I'll update more comprehensively later, but first, I must present this:


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I'm in Nantes! Marek is too, after an arduous trans-France trip that involved not having a seat on his TGV from Paris. We spent a long time dragging our bags around in search of our hotel yesterday and are feeling a bit sore this morning, but we live and shall not speak of it again, and are about to head out exploring ( Read more... )

So, there are many things to do this morning, starting with AAAAH PACK ALL THE THINGS! and ending with RUN OFF SOME OF THE NERVES! but I also must update ( Read more... )

I'm feeling much better about the world this morning, and I'm about to head off to the archives départementales (for the second-last time!!) for a nice morning with Paul Marchegay's reconstruction of one of the cartularies of Saint-Nicolas d'Angers and other assorted documents. Then I will have lunch and go to La Poste, and then I will go to the ( Read more... )