I survived my first day of teaching yesterday, and signs point to I'll also survive my first lecture tomorrow, although I'm pretty nervous about it. I was what felt like spectacularly calm through my intro classes, but it appears that that was apparently because I was channeling all my anxiety into writing this lecture. The good news is, however, ( Read more... )

So, today has been fairly replete with moments of win.

I started the morning off at the dentist's (win? you might be asking yourself right about now) getting a checkup, and I'm super-pleased to have discovered that my year of diligently flossing my teeth every night has paid off. Literally paid off, it turns out, because my dentist's office bills ( Read more... )

Ugh, I don't know if I'm undercaffeinated (my brain feels like it hasn't seen caffeine in days) or overcaffeinated (the rest of me feels like I've injected a bunch of caffeine straight into my bloodstream), or just tired, but it's seriously impeding my enjoyment of my breakfast work party at Bean Scene. Get with the program, head. Stop vaguely ( Read more... )

I owe ALL the updates - yes, litterally ALL the updates - but that probably isn't going to make posting them happen. For now, I'll say that I finally managed to talk on the phone with advisor R this afternoon after many attempts, mishaps, and wrong-number adventures. The most salient point I'm taking away from our conversation, besides things like ( Read more... )

Today I accomplished very little, but within the minute measure of that very little, I indulged in retail therapy. I went back and got the scarf I saw last Saturday, and it's most pleasing. It's a big square with a reddish-orange background, and an orange, yellow-orange, white, pink, and blue paisley pattern, and sweet multicoloured tassels ( Read more... )

I've made it to Montreal (and Sherbrooke and Montreal again), and I've now cleared US Customs and Immigration and am waiting for my flight to Chicago, despite my protracted attack of forgetting the existence of my I-20 as I was packing. I got in touch with S at the Office of International Students and Scholars yesterday, and she sent me a scan of ( Read more... )

In the realm of things that really shouldn't be funny at all, but kind of are, Roman Emperors, up to AD 476 and not including usurpers, in order of how hardcore their deaths were. It's making the rounds on facebook too, but in case you missed it ( Read more... )

So first of all, is anyone else having problems with dreamwidth loading reeeeeally slowly, or is it just me?

In any case, I would like to formally register the comment that last night's nuit blanche with a side of hypochondriac anguish was totally uncalled-for. Admittedly, I have been reverting to my old, pre-university ways of staying awake ( Read more... )

I am so desperately behind at posting, and signs point to it's unlikely I'm going to catch up, seeing as how I'm leaving on a train at 8:03 tomorrow morning to go to Paris for a week with Lauren and Laurie. I think I've finally decided that I'm not going to bring my computer, although I will have my ipad to make sure I don't completely die of ( Read more... )

My cold has remained relatively minor, as these things go (all colds measured on the scale of the awful awful cold I had over the Canada Day weekend in Prince George in July 2000), but it gave me a pretty miserable afternoon at the archives yesterday nevertheless. Apparently my unhappy sinuses don't like being bent over manuscripts and computer ( Read more... )