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, internets, since last we talked, I have done... various things that I didn't feel like posting about at the time. But I'm now all signed up for library privileges (although still working on internet access in said library) and reunited with all the books I sent home from France, and working on scaling up the amount of work I'm doing every day ( Read more... )

So far this week I've been hard at work - technically I'm currently home for lunch between working - on the dual projects of reading Hubert Guillotel's doctoral thesis in one of its two extant copies (ILLed for me from Brest, consultation in the library only) and revising and translating my Saint-Florent-sous-Dol paper. You can probably guess ( Read more... )

I'm one part chair-dancing, one part flailing in panic, and various other parts emotionally eating a thing of raspberry yogurt because I'm all out of chocolate and I just got an email from prof P, director of graduate studies, informing me that I've been appointed as one of the department's teaching fellows next year. AAAAAAAAAAH! This means I'm ( 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'm still here after my night of translation, which actually concluded sometime around 4:30. Then I went to bed until ten (I'm not sure I actually fell asleep, but I probably did), got up, checked everything over and sent it all of to prof FM shortly after eleven. Now I'm shakily eating tofu-ricotta tortellini from a pouch (or rather, I've put ( Read more... )

So by the way, I live. There hasn't been much of excitement going on here - things are generally enjoyable but not dramatic. I've eaten a number of delicious baguettes, and lately, some pastries, and I have some hand-washing to do if I want clean socks tomorrow, and I've been going to the library and reading a lot, and the Canucks are 1-1-1 in ( Read more... )

Yesterday I posted about my various doings of late, most of them necessary but non-academic, so today, it's time to talk about work. I've actually been doing some this week, and I venture to say that today I was actually pretty productive. I did enough spreadsheet-compiling and reading that when it came to reading hockey blogs this evening, I ( 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... )

I'm back in Boston, spending the afternoon slacking off following my visa appointment, and things are not too bad. I woke up this morning, checked my email, and immediately fell into wild transports of the purest panic over finding housing in Rennes. But after a few desperate emails, which, fortunately, received timely replies, I submitted an ( Read more... )