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?
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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. |
We see them all the time - the logo on the bottom of the TV screen telling you that this CSI episode is playing on CTV. Digital watermarking, “the process of possibly irreversibly embedding information into a digital signal. The signal may be audio, pictures or video, for example. If the signal is copied, then [...] Add to the list of things which most girls don’t talk about at parties but which are pillars of my conversational repetoire: Profane excretion. Image via Wikipedia Historians are battling it out over just how incredible the English defeat of the French troops at Agincourt during the Hundred Years’ War - somehow this debate is linked to advice given to Gen. Petraeus: No matter how successful an offensive, the general population must be won over in order for insurgency to [...] The medievalist in me can’t resist perpetuating a dying tradition. I put the stamp on my thirtieth Christmas card today and will be walking the last batch down to the mailbox at the end of the street during my lunch hour. I worry about this letter-writing mania - if at 24 i send 30 Xmas [...] Recently, in Kaftal’s Iconography of the Saints (i don’t remember which one), a picture of a family being roasted in a hollow bull got my attention. Image via Wikipedia It may not be Nero… but i learnt a lot about anti-heros yesterday when i attended a lecture my advisor was giving for the Spring Renaissance Program at U of T. In an attempt to increase my web presence in the appropriate spheres (i.e. in the search for my intended audience), i have recently discovered Blog Carnival. Blog Carnival is a website that maintains a directory of the individual carnivals published online (and obviously registered with the site). A carnival is a collection of posts on [...] Image via Wikipedia The number of people who roll their eyes or make couched, snide remarks about the possibilities for employment, useful contribution or even making ends meet when I tell them that I am about to complete an M.A. in Medieval History is astonishing. Being surrounded almost 24/7 by others with a similar passion to [...] Image via Wikipedia During much of the Middle Ages, the most common brevia texts to be copied out were charms against a sudden death. Our current culture idealizes a death that is swift and painless with no time for reflection. There is no “ars moriendi” or “art of dying.” I often find, when people inadvertently presume [...] |
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