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.

That was a mistake

So, UofT, much like Concordia, continues to bombard my inbox with junk. Today i rec’d an invitation to vote for UofT as the Canadian school most worthy of international renown at the Globe Campus Poll. Guess who went and voted for McGill? Interestingly enough, Universite de Montreal is winning. I am sort of surprised. Hopkins, [...]

Funky smells and vomit inducing activities

I was surprised on Tuesday night to discover that the washroom facilities aboard the Montreal to Toronto 6:20 train smelled of iced tea - the peach kind.
Sitting in Dessert Trends at the corner of Harbord and Brunswick, i was pouring over my Golden Book of 555 Latin Verbs (totally worth the nine dollars even if [...]

As You Like It – Canopy Theatre at Philosopher’s Stage

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Much of Shakespeare’s comedic corpus illudes me, but I am also of the belief that anything written by the bard builds character. What could be more typical of his vision than a play of gender reversal and improbable love relationships ending in not one but four weddings?
As You Like It contains not only [...]

How do I love thee? Let me Count the Ways

Whenever i come home for even a short stay, my Montrealer friends ask how it is in Toronto - and the answer is always - tedious. I have great things to say about U of T and am perfectly aware that as a busy grad student holed up in her basement bachelor, i don’t get [...]