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.

Erosion

(noun) the process by which the surface of the earth is worn away by the action of water, glaciers, winds, waves, etc.
The Makhtesh Ramon, the world’s largest erosion crater, lies in the Negev desert. Fossils and unique geological phenomenon are contained within its perimeter. At 7:30am I stood at the lookout and peered back into [...]

Sybil’s Leaves 2009: Rapture

Trying to come up with a theme for three photographs is proving to be a little more difficult than i thought. Luckily, the main photographer documenting my visit had certain favoured shots and today, after missing out on a beautiful spring day in New York due to a knee injury (that i am ever so [...]

Sybil’s Leaves 2009: Acres of Silly Songs

I couldn’t help but starting singing the nursery rhyme: “goosey, goosey gander…. where have you wandered? upstairs, downstairs, in my lady’s chamber” when we followed this goose around the Templar citadel in Akko (the crusader city of Acre). Silly songs kept cropping up on the trip. Everyone who shared the car with us was subjected [...]

Sybil’s Leaves 2009: Forays into Photo Journalism

You’d think that by now I would not be surprised when expectations and the unfolding of events don’t coincide. The past twelve days in Israel were chock-full of surprises, heated discussions, tender moments, glorious landscapes and self-discovery – oh yes; there is always self-discovery. I wouldn’t travel otherwise.
I had expected the trip to Australia in [...]