Oh man, so Boston is going to be largely shut down tomorrow, including all public transit except for a few buses (none of which actually come to campus and only one of which comes within range of the campus shuttle bus), and more than half of the parking on campus is also going to be closed, and the governor has declared a state of emergency and ( Read more... )

I'm making progress at everything I need to get done before I leave. The marking has completely fallen by the wayside for the moment, but I've made progress on my dissertation chapter and it's as it turns out immensely time-consuming appendices. I'm not saying I won't be on campus late tomorrow night finishing it up so I can leave it for advisor R ( Read more... )

In today's installment of the December posting meme,
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Last night was an object reminder that I can't write things about my research after 11:00 pm and hope to sleep any time within the next few hours, so I'm posting earlier tonight.

Today, I'm posting on the following topic for
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I'm in Ottawa, visiting M and Z, enjoying an excellent change in scenery for the weekend, and yesterday, even a day off! M and Z have been taking me to all their favorite purveyors of food and coffee as we eat our way around Hintonburg and Little Italy, and yesterday featured a nerdy trip to the Diefenbunker Museum (the cold-war era bunker built to ( Read more... )

Wednesday reading meme from my research/writing nest at my parents' dining room table in the great intermittently-smoky north.

What I've finished reading:

Charlotte Brontë, Villette (project Gutenberg edition ( Read more... )

I haven't yet entirely given up on the prospect of posting about the latter phases of my trip, but in the meantime, how about I get back in the swing of posting with memes? It's Wednesday and I've been reading things, which means it's an excellent time for the Wednesday Reading Meme.

What I've Finished Reading:

Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling), ( Read more... )

Okay, my last five students do not want me to grade their papers tonight. They want me to grade them tomorrow morning with coffee before the exam. I mean yes, I might end up sitting in the exam room putting the grades on the papers (I'm keeping a provisional list at the moment), but hey, that's something to do. It's certainly better than standing ( Read more... )

Tonight, in phrases I legitimately just about uttered, in the context of telling roommate A (who has been unusually chatty in the past couple of days) about my latest campaign of work on my Dol-Combourg chapter, which is threatening to suck in more eleventh-century Norman politics than I'd consider desirable for my dissertation about Breton lay and ( Read more... )

I'm in the early phases of what's looking like a real all-nighter tonight, as I attempt to get the essays for this fellowship application drafted to send to advisor R before she wakes up in the morning. Fellow medievalist CR pointed out earlier today that she probably needs them to write my letter of recommendation, something I hadn't considered ( Read more... )