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: The Universe Provides…

Staying at the beach overnight was a new experience for me. Returning multiple times over the night to the ocean’s banks to bathe by moonlight, awakening to the bush turkey’s wild gobbles and heading out to sit in the sun before 9am have created a mental space from which I no am able to conceive [...]

Sybil’s Leaves 2009: Australiad Commencement

Bryan has aptly dubbed this portion of my trek the “Australiad.” I’d been putting off writing as i can’t really provide definitive news about my plans even yet. We may or may not be leaving on a road trip tomorrow. How can things be so up in the air at the very last minute you [...]

Morning Latin

This morning in the car I got a chance to use my Latin skills.
- Is there such a thing as a “Southern Borealis”?
- Actually, if there is it would be the “Aurora Australis” as Borealis is the Latin adjective for northern and Australis is the word for southern.
- Whatever, is there one?
Well, yes, there is and, although sometimes [...]