Happy 2015! It's 2015, the year in which, barring major unforeseen extenuating circumstances, I will either finish my dissertation and get my PhD, or concede defeat. I'd prefer it be the former, not the latter. To that end, Marek and I have formed an agreement to write the remaining drafts of our respective MA and doctoral theses in regular ( Read more... )

Augh. This past week has been failtastically unproductive, and now it's noon on Saturday, and I have to leave my house around 6:30 am on Tuesday morning for my trip home. Here's what I have to do between now and then:

( To do before I leave for the holidays )

*Screams* Earlier this morning, I posted a link on twitter to an interesting French semi-critique (only semi-critique because a lot of it is about what the French are doing better than Anglophone academia in the realm of popularizing academic historical research) of Jo Guldi and David Armitage's controversial (among historians, anyway - my ( Read more... )

It's the first day of December, and it's currently 17 degrees celsius/63 degrees fahrenheit in Boston, on a day that has set new cold records on the prairies (and on which it's currently -10/14 in my hometown). It's supposed to be colder tomorrow but warm like this again on Wednesday, because Boston. But I'm not here to whine about the weather. I'm ( Read more... )

Suddenly, it's rainy, grey, and November, and I'm decisively behind at things. I've discovered, however that AcWriMo (academic writing month, a national novel writing month knockoff) is a thing. I'm not going to sign up officially, but I am going to try to implement it in my life as I finish up my monastic vocations and careers chapter and work on ( Read more... )

My big monthly to-do list isn't doing it for me right now. I need a small, more specific to-do list for today. One that can get me dressed and gently usher me through the rest of the weekend.

( To do, Sunday October (gulp) 19, 2014 )

It's October, and I'm in Charlottetown, PEI. Actually, I'm in the Charlottetown Airport, waiting for it to get light out before I summon the cab that's going to take me to Moncton, New Brunswick, which is where I'm now catching my flight to Montreal on my way back to Boston (I volunteered to be bumped off my flight from Charlottetown, which has ( Read more... )

It's September, and I'm awake and more or less back on Eastern time. I actually accomplished a lot last month, but this month promises to be even busier. Ack. Here's what I have to do:

Major Academic Projects:Vocations chapter (now vocations and monastic careers chapter ( Read more... )

It's August, and I'm back from all my academic adventures, which means it's time to settle in and work. Here's my to-do list for the month:

Major academic projects:

Vocations(/donations?) chapter
Translation for prof D
Learning German

( Vocations chapter )

I'm back from Rennes, London, Oxford, and Leeds. I've had many glasses of water, sleep, two cups of coffee, and a breakfast sandwich. I've opened the mail parcels that arrived while I was gone, mostly unpacked my suitcases, and deposited a cheque. My first load of post-trip laundry is in the washing machine ( Read more... )