The View From Kalamazoo

Amazing animations – alphabets for language-heads!

…what to think of this idea. So very interesting, yet I shudder at the thought…Pollack eat your heart out…

Oh. Ew. Nevermind. They probably are, after all…

Random weather? I think not!

So some Italian writer is stressing me out. I do Nicholas Eymeric, he does him – in multiple!
here, here, here, here, here (without image), oh and here, too!!!)

I do Picatrix, he not only does Picatrix, but manages to combines it with Eymeric!

Biz-fucking-zarre. I think I’m getting a twitch…

Haven’t worked out in two weeks. I’m not sure how guilty I should be feeling, but I’ve been busy, out of town, and just exhausted. It ain’t the guilt that keeps hitting the snooze button on the alarm clock… I’ll go tomorrow. Must get back on track. Have been trying to be better about my water. Even given the great deal of Guinness I enjoyed in St. Louis I have only gained a lb., at least by the clock at the doctor’s office yesterday, which is Very Good, Indeed.

Interesting bits:

Book Auction (fascinating books, disturbing paperweight)

Orthodox news (Hell not freezing over).

Go, Leif, go!

Visited St. Louis last week/weekend. Had a great time staying with my friend, Laura, drank copious amounts of Guinness and ate way too much pub food (and loved every second of it!) I met with some folks in the St. Louis Univ. history dept. and they were very nice, straight-shootin’, and encouraging. (my biggest criteria might be, at this point, behind ‘fund me’ is ‘be normal-no bastards need apply’. I can’t see spending upwards of 5-7 years with people I hate who torture me at every turn) The Vatican film archive there is a definite bonus, the carefulness with which one must choose a housing area/neighborhood to find decent schools is not so exciting, and I don’t even want to discuss the world of hurt my sinuses were in from pretty much the moment I arrived…in short, I’m definitely planning to apply.

Also attended a Studies in Medievalism conference, and can only say that I am even more certain than before that conference that I am *not* into medievalism. A couple of the papers were really interesting, a couple made me cringe a bit, one I sat grinding my teeth through (I couldn’t even *begin* to figure out a polite way to make the comments that needed making, it was so very, VERY off the mark in one section) – I call it the ‘TMJ paper’ at this point. Ack.

The Basilica is gorgeous. No one in that city can drive. Fried ravioli is very strange. The Arch, lit by the bright light of the setting sun, is truly magnificent to behold. Fried chicken at Pat’s is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

On college campuses, today, the Good Samaritan would be arrested.

I’d better stop holding the door for little old ladies or I’ll be picked up, myself. Bah.

I have a co-worker who doesn’r watch TV, doesn’t listen to the news on the radio, doesn’t read the newspaper. Some days I can understand the need to isolate oneself – my own son is not quite 13 months old, the same age as this poor little girl, and stories like this just make my heart ache … and get all of my old-testament leftover bits a bubbling. Shame that boyfriend can’t be held upside down and slammed repeatedly into a wall…a real shame.

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