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... )

Well, I got cheated out of a birthday snowstorm in 2010, and had to teach on my birthday after it looking like I might get a snow day, but this year appears to be making up for it with a pre-birthday snowpocalypse (my birthday is on Sunday). As of around 10:00 this evening, my current institution of higher learning and Jesuits is closed tomorrow, ( Read more... )

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... )

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... )

Augh, there is too much for me either to explain or to sum up. So I give you bullet points ( Read more... )

I'm in Boston, and I live! After a reasonable night of sleep, I can even detect my brain again, although it feels a little like it's been hit by a truck. But that's a massive improvement on yesterday's two brain cells floating around in a massive void, unable to connect ( Read more... )

Here it is: my comprehensive list of everything I need to do by the end of August in order to be ready to move out of Boston and fly home to Vernon for three weeks before I move to Rennes for eight months. It will be lurking at the top of my journal until the end of August, and spawning (hopefully) daily spinoffs.

( Visa stuff... )

So, I'm still here so far this morning. The weather is foul, and noticeably more so in the hour since I got up and shut my bedroom window and made my morning cup of tea. Happily, however, the banging of my window frames in the wind, which I think started around six, didn't keep me awake like I was fearing, after a truly insufficient night of sleep ( Read more... )

Okay, so it's after midnight again, and I have a lot to do tomorrow, both fun and less-fun. Now with more getting things done before the weather goes pear-shaped. I'll have to get going right away in the morning! So here's my to-do list for tomorrow, pre-hurricane/tropical storm Irene edition.

( To do, August 27 )

My shiny new iPad and shiny new French visa, although both continue to be extremely happy-making, are also sort of symbols of the end of an era in my life. In eighteen days roommate J and I will both have moved out of our house, where we've both been living (with various third roommates, turning over annually) since we started grad school in the ( Read more... )