There are bookmarks for websites across the top of my browser. Postcards are slipped into volumes i convince myself i am returning to “soon.” I am particularly fond of an embossed leather bookmark i picked up at the Frick back in 2003 - but what about bookmarking before, well, books?
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 I'm a student pursuing a doctoral degree in late medieval history. My main interests include but are not limited to Latin, Italian, cultural theory, educational curriculum, historiography, cognitive processes, language-theory, gender relations and THE WESTERN CANON (mwahaha); i am not particularly interesting, avant-garde or risque; My main hobbies include the exciting activities of cooking, baking, going to the gym, eating green apple-caramel lollipops, restaurant reviewing and acting as child-like and sassy as possible. I keep these entries from the years of my life - no matter how i feel about them today - available because i find it useful to revisit events i now interpret differently. My name is heather, i'm of Montreal and i was born in the nefarious, ominous year 1984. |
PhD Comics, one of my favourite web comics, is running a great series on the adventures of thesis-land. Yesterday was QUITE a day, preceded by a day more arduous and today - it wouldn’t look much better if i weren’t being compensated for three hours of editing a French student’s paper for our French Revolution [...] We see them all the time - the logo on the bottom of the TV screen telling you that this CSI episode is playing on CTV. Digital watermarking, “the process of possibly irreversibly embedding information into a digital signal. The signal may be audio, pictures or video, for example. If the signal is copied, then [...] I haven’t been driven to buy an academic book “just because” in a long, long time. It was supposed to be skimmed for a paper, but as i couldn’t put it down, i ended up having to ask for an extension. I can’t recommend it enough. When i come up with a better formulation than Felix Gilbert’s on page 274 of Machiavelli and Guicciardini, I’ll let you know: Image via Wikipedia i think, perhaps, reading Guicciardini, Rucellai and Machiavelli may be better for my mental health than a truckload of pills or hours on a therapist’s couch. Also less expensive. I am so much more willing to stomach platitudes when they are artfully composed by a mind greater than i. Last night, when i finally open up my email acct (and i get WAY too much REAL email during the day), i discovered that the organizer of my panel for the NeMLA conference in April has dropped out. They are looking for someone to replace him, or a random NeMLA representative will step up. I [...] Cover via Amazon Ok. That’s it. I am tired of finding references to Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism in just about every article I read – in works ostensibly about the French Revolution, literary theory and even early modern witchcraft theory. It was going to be on the summer reading list – but it has just [...] I was first introduced to the concepts of colonial imperialism directed towards the peoples of Europe itself when talking a course on the Irish Famine in my freshman year. The exposure did not really legitimate the hardline separatist account of the Quebecois experience in Canada as a case of “imperialism” which should be likened to [...] |
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