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.

Aernout van der Neer’s Nightscapes

Lost hard-drives also mean lost electronic address books. As i rummaged through my travel journals looking for the means to send Christmas cards, i found notes i jotted down while in Amsterdam in May 2007 with the infamous Auntie Lorraine.
The Rijksmuseum was under renovation and most of its collection in storage. I was captivated by [...]