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.

Mask of Command: Book Review

Keegan, John. The Mask of Command: A Study of Generalship. London: Pimlico, 1987, 2004. 358pgs.
In my last year of high school, Mr. Goodman, my world history teacher, organized a formal debate lasting a fortnight in order to assess which countries were most responsible for the outbreak of WWI. Were it not for that experience [...]

They’re wearing peach pants?

So, the courts have ruled that police officers in our little metropolitan area can wear non-regulation pants as a pressure tactic. Many are wearing camouflage - which the city had contested as being overly intimidating (aren’t you supposed to be intimidated by a patrolling police officer?). However, many of the officers have been seen wearing [...]