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Yeah, I haven't posted here since the beginning of this academic year... and now it's the end, and I'm about to start grading the end-of-term papers. There's rather a lot going on just now, but most of it isn't yet for public consumption. By fall, I hope!I'm working on a paper to give at a conference next week, though. Assuming I get it done (which, yes, I expect I will as I always manage

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Starting the new semester before Labor Day always feels odd. It's still summer out there, not autumn yet at all, and having a day off so quickly seems silly. Not that I mind having a day off, mind you, even if all I do with it is try to catch up on the things I'm already behind on.Are we all conditioned by our elementary school years to expect certain eternal verities?

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I admit it -- I'm a Harry Potter fan. Right now I am eagerly anticipating the release of the final book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Under the circumstances I expect I'll be reading it from as soon as it's delivered on Saturday, until I finish... however long that may be.

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I've just gotten back from the Very Big Medieval Conference that I go to most years. This was a good one; each time I go, I do know more people and that's always a plus. My paper went quite well despite the fact that I was rather behindhand (for me) in finishing it. Even my doctoral advisor seemed to think well of what I was doing. I also spoke with the folks who do the Medieval Dress and

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Picked up my very first CSA* box yesterday (I have to thank Mel for telling me about these). Lots of salad greens, spinach, baby leeks, turnips, white radishes, oregano, and rosemary. I cooked the turnips tonight and washed up all the salad greens so that salad will be easy all week, and then tomorrow I'll turn the spinach and leeks and some of the herbs into something quiche-like, with eggs and

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I was honored by the History Club, the undergraduate group in my department, at our annual departmental banquet last Friday; they chose me as the Professor of the Year. I was surprised and pleased and very touched. Sometimes it's hard to remember that all the work isn't wholly unappreciated, after all.

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LibraryThing is an extremely cool online way to catalog one's books. My sister told me about it and I decided to sign up, even though I already use EndNote on my own computer. For one thing, then she (and others) can see what I already own, if they're thinking about giving me a book as a gift. (Well, assuming I'm good about keeping it up to date!) My catalog is here. You can even add a

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Well, I survived V-Day without hubby; we talked the day before and day after, as it's not possible for us to talk really except Tuesdays, Thursdays, and occasionally on the weekend, between our two schedules and his limited phone access.I had somehow thought that having him gone would give me a lot more time to get things done, but it doesn't apparently work like that. I'm just barely not

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So, my husband just left today for his sabbatical trip to Sweden. He won't be back until August. I'll be going to see him during my spring break in March (the plane reservations for that are already booked) and then again in May or June, after the end of the semester (not yet set, and probably for two weeks rather than one). It feels lonely already, although I have lots to do to keep me busy:

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The end is in sight; I have one more essay question to grade for the exam in the Civ class (that is, 58 essays), and then it's calculating the grades and turning those in. After that it's time to read the 33 research papers for the upper-division class, which at least ought to be reasonably literate by comparison and are also typed.I really, really want to get these all graded and finished with

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So, I've been kind of bad in not posting here very much, partly from the end-of-semester business and partly because I've done a lot of posting elsewhere. In the holiday season I write drabbles (little 100-word pieces of fiction) by request for online friends, and this year I've written 26 of them which I'm posting one per day this month. So that's the good thing, to be giving something that I

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It's the week before Thanksgiving, unbelievably. Which means four more weeks of classes, and then finals week. Ack! Where did the time disappear to! I have many things yet to be done this semester, including needing to finish writing an article as well as the class prep. And Thanksgiving will be eaten by a trip to Seattle to my father-in-law; not that I mind terribly visiting him or anything

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Gacked from ADMedievalist:You paid attention during 100% of high school! 85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!Do you deserve your high school diploma?Make a Quiz

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I'm setting up this blog as an alternate identity; if you know me under another online name, please refrain from using it here!

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