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.

Promises to myself

Today, i will not let the date on the calendar encourage mawkish behaviour (mawkish: overly sentimental).
It’s going to be a distraction-free day in order to make up for a run of horribly unproductive days at work. No MSN, no facebook, no reading the New York Times, no chatting with the receptionist.
Furthermore, even though i had [...]

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 [...]

On being garrulous

Garrulous is the word of the day today - it means overly talkative.
Yes, it’s an excellent word to describe me - feel free to snicker to your heart’s content.
It creates a bit of a problem though. As my good friends can attest - i don’t mind being told to shut up when i’m on a [...]

Because you don’t have a choice

I’m re-writing the GREs (Graduate Record Exam) on October 11th - that’s less than three weeks away! I don’t have lots of study time available - so i am going to need to be pretty devoted. Hence, there is going to be a word of the day on my blog until that time. There will [...]