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 [...]
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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. |
I’ve re-established my twitter account. I can’t cope without status updates. I’ve also started another account (this time in the Lambda world) at Ikariam.org. My employers have decided that in order to increase productivity they will block access to facebook’s server. This prevents me from playing Mafia Wars, but not from finding something to do during my fifteen minute “smoke breaks.” Image via Wikipedia I’ve been a poor blogger this past week. My apologies. Latin, dissertating and working has been a bit overwhelming. I have recently started re-watching Star Trek: The Next Generation and, this too, has become a time vortex. Image via Wikipedia Trying out StumbleUpon, i encountered a lovely set of Street Installations by Mark Jenkins. Whimsical, witty and yet stunning i was mesmerized. They reminded me that i need to spend the next couple of months in Toronto going to the theatre, arts shows and other cultural events i don’t normally manage to find [...] So, the conference was Saturday and i think it went well. The paper was submitted on Sunday night, and it is over and done with. The Latin exam was Monday, and though i don’t think i passed, i refuse to cry over spilled milk. Although there are still forty-five minutes left in this day, i am not hopeful that anymore of that paper that was supposed to be written by this evening will get hammered out. That means i have written NOTHING today. I should not be making buttermilk pancakes and drizzling blueberry jam over them. Alas, when The Joy of Cooking said they come out best if the batter is refrigerated for 6 hours or longer - i knew i was doomed. Although i have to get up very early for school tomorrow (and the day after [...] A slight oversight on my part - bringing only Camus’ La Peste to read on the bus as “break” reading from my school reading - the introduction to the Decameron when i am, myself, suffering from a bout of sinus cold. Loverly. just loverly. Wikipedia is, by far, one of the greatest innovations of our age. It does for the information available on the internet what Boyle’s innovation did for the scientific method (he got a group of reliable witness to attest to the “fact” of the vacuum created within his laboratory - the facts were now represented by [...] |
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