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?
It may be obvious to point [...]
|
|||||
 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 [...] 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. 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. So, UofT, much like Concordia, continues to bombard my inbox with junk. Today i rec’d an invitation to vote for UofT as the Canadian school most worthy of international renown at the Globe Campus Poll. Guess who went and voted for McGill? Interestingly enough, Universite de Montreal is winning. I am sort of surprised. Hopkins, [...] I’ve spent the past two days looking for a suitable graphic for this post - but there just isn’t one. Sorry. About three weeks ago, i ran into this very neat site - Bookmooch. The principle is simple - you list the books you are willing to give away. Someone asks for them and you send them. For every book sent you accumulate credits towards asking for books yourself. I’ve spent the last three days playing with Picnik, the browser-based photo-editing software, working on the new layout of this site (almost done - just a few more content-related items to tweek), finding topical blog carnivals, researching cameras and… most importantly, writing a post for The Lost Girls about my recent couch-surfing adventures. 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.” i have been saying that i need to work on my Italian for months - say, since last August - and as the prospect of enrolling in the Universita di Perugia’s intensive intermediate Latin course is no longer on my horizon (but as Bryan pointed out, i got a trip to Israel and a trip [...] |
|
|||
|
Copyright © 2010 Sybilla Oritur - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
