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.

Sybil’s Leaves 2009: Exchanging Home for Rome Sweet Rome

My flights to Rome begin at 3pm and i still have to purge the pile of clothes that needs to go into my suitcase and go out for breakfast with the parental unit. However, before bombarding my readers with new tales of my travel adventures rather unexpectedly, i thought i would provide some reflective thoughts [...]

A Snail’s Pace - Post #700


Canadian Monopoly Championship 2009

It only seems fitting that given Montreal’s prestigious “Boardwalk” slot on the World Monopoly board that we should be hosting the three day national championship. This morning on the drive-in to work CHOM was interviewing the judge of the tournament being held from May 28-30th at the Montreal Science Centre.
Apparently most of the players are [...]

Do Over Day

February 26th is Do Over Day - an opportunity to reflect on the mistakes made in the past and the good times shared.
My recent personal philosophical development has made it that i do not immediately jump to regrets when i think of Do Over Day and its possibilities. Although i am not yet at the [...]

Aernout van der Neer’s Nightscapes

Lost hard-drives also mean lost electronic address books. As i rummaged through my travel journals looking for the means to send Christmas cards, i found notes i jotted down while in Amsterdam in May 2007 with the infamous Auntie Lorraine.
The Rijksmuseum was under renovation and most of its collection in storage. I was captivated by [...]

Friday Night Lights

I had a blonde-moment yesterday when i realized that i had confused the dates of both my Friday night and Saturday plans. Luckily, both moved one day later, so there was no conflict. However, i found myself with nothing to do on a Friday night - and that is not okay.
I decided to head over [...]

Akumu Ink: Foray into the World of Fashion Design

Akumu Ink is a Montreal-based clothing company that provides dark, yet whimsical designs printed on American Apparel t-shirts and tote bags to a growing, loyal client-base. Incidentally, the designer, Joey, is a friend of mine from high school and i have very fond memories of his sketches in my agenda - most of which implied [...]

Memory and Pleasant Associations

One night last week i couldn’t sleep. As i lay there, i decided to make a concerted effort to “relive” as much of my life as i could by reviewing the memories both of key events and people whom at one time or another were important to me. My friends and family have often seemed [...]

You Know You Were An LAC-er When:

As you find yourself putting off writing a final draft of your dissertation by doing an unnecessarily detailed edit in red ink, you are excited by the idea that your use of the term “world view” merits a footnote on Habermas… and you’re going to have to look up that citation.

Teeter-Totter or See-Saw

When i was a little kid, one of two anglophone children in our neighbourhood (the other being my younger brother who weighed substantially less than i did), park activities that required interpersonal relations were oftentimes… problematic. I remember spending quite a few moments of my summers attempting to come up with a way to ask [...]