For about a decade, my husband and lived in the southeast, specifically in Miami, FL, while I pursued my PhD, and in Charlotte, NC. And, in the south, air conditioning is a ubiquitous fact of life. Miami weather was generally intolerable, both in temperature and in humidity, most of the year, forcing one to shift …
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One Year On: An Ode to Anne
On April 29, 2017 at 6:12 p.m., Anne died. Today, the fall of 2003 feels like a distant memory. I was working at Plimoth Plantation in my first year as a historical interpreter (read: professional pilgrim), and my mother called me to tell me about a litter of kittens the curator of a different museum …
Update: Charlotte’s Recovery
Back in January, I first noticed that Charlotte was having some trouble getting around. This was rather uncharacteristic of my typically acrobatic alpha-cat, so I called the vet. There were a few test results that came back indicating some dehydration, and perhaps a minor infection, but not much more of an immediately obvious problem. …
Paris
Back in January, when the exams were looming large and the pressure was really starting to come to bear, Stephen and I decided to take a trip during Spring Break. I'm usually not much of a fan of traveling at this time of year, in fact. The spring semester, unlike the fall, is not punctuated …
Countdown
This evening, I was taking notes on one of the books on my comprehensive exam list, and I thought to myself: "You know, it would be great just to get away. I could go to York for a few days, maybe. Or, California. Or anywhere but here right now." And then, came the sobering reality. …
Naptime: One of My Favorites
Facebook recently incorporated an "On This Day" function through which users can see the posts they made on a particular date in prior years. When I look at these posts, they remind me of just how far I've come over the passing years, where I've lived, what I was interested in, and where I was …
Battle for the Desk Chair
Reading for comprehensive exams has had, thus far, two main components: reading the books (or the parts of them that are the most relevant for this purpose) and typing up notes on them. Granted, I have most of the books checked out from the library, and only a handful have ever been recalled since I …
For the Love of Flannel
When I was in middle and high school back in the mid-1990s, flannel was everywhere. The high point of the grundge movement had led to store after store stocked with flannel shirts for men and women. Even rock-slighly-too-influenced-by-hair-bands-in-the-1980s-band Aerosmith deliberately featured some very 1990s styles in their iconic videos from their landmark album, Get …
The Last Epic Library Trip
In two weeks, the school year will begin. For the second year, I am amazed by how quickly the summer, which always appears to stretch out endlessly when classes end in May, slips by. There's no question that this was a very good summer in a number of ways. I criticize myself for taking vacation …
More Cat Help
Reference library help for the day.
Medievalist in the Making 