I am not that thrilled with women’s studies as a field. The idea of choosing your object of study based solely on their biological sex disturbs me and seems both arbitrary and demeaning somehow to the women that get studied. People worthy of study should be chosen on the merit of their thought (or its [...]
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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. |
Far from being writers — founders of their own place, heirs to the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language, diggers of wells and builders of houses — readers are voyagers: they move across lands belonging to someone else, like nomads poaching their way across fields they did not write, despoiling [...] A few months ago, i was on one of my atheistic, nihilistic rants that generally occur when copious amounts of alcohol, etc. have been consumed. I remember exclaiming, forcefully i might add, that there could not be a God, because no God would have let Alexandria burn. I am an academic to the core. 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 [...] 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. |
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