I'm still here - it's just that last weekend was insanely busy, and this week, beginning on Tuesday, has been intentionally and epically not-busy because of the Thanksgiving break. After my all-nighter a week ago Thursday night, I proceeded to spend last Saturday mostly in bed, and then spent all day Sunday and another all-nighter finishing my ( Read more... )

Argh. I just finished reading an article that, in an irritating and insipid (and were I to be nasty, I would say particularly French) way... anticipates the paper I'm planning to write for advisor R's seminar this semester about the development and "social meaning(s)" of Saint-Florent's property in eleventh-century Brittany. Not only that, but it ( Read more... )

DOUBLE ARGH WITH SPRINKLES ON TOP. My paper is finally progressing reasonably well, but there are new complications. I BLAME YOU, hideous East-coast weather systems! I also blame myself, for buying a non-refundable bus ticket with a non-exchangeable pickup option. And I blame my general state of penury, which led me to choose the cheapest non- ( Read more... )

So far this morning I have ( Read more... )

ACK! Last night I decided I should break down and install the latest updates to my computer, after several weeks of saying "later" every time the notification of updates popped up, so of course this morning, computer issues ( Read more... )

So, today devolved midmorning and continued devolving into the early afternoon, which brought the worst round of driveway-drama yet with the new upstairs neighbors ( Read more... )

Today, among other things, I read three boring but necessary articles about diplomatics and archive construction that made me want to claw my eyes out of my head, and wrote up summaries of two of them plus another one I read yesterday. Things were looking grim at 4:00 when I finished. Then I opened up Patrick Geary's Phantoms of Remembrance: ( Read more... )

Hoooooooooly shit. When vegetables attack, guys, seriously. I'm sure on some occasions in the past I've somehow escaped unscathed from cutting up jalapenos with bare hands, but as has been becoming progressively clearer to me this evening, they are serious when they say you should wear gloves to cut up hot peppers. I think I must have put my ( Read more... )

Well, now. Thanks to the fashion blog academichic and to a little more lunchtime poking around the internet than I should strictly speaking be indulging in (but I'm still feeling a little out of it due to the dregs of headache or possibly coming down with something), I have learned two things today.

1) The long puffy down coat thing is a trend. ( 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... )