The View From Kalamazoo

..that I’ve recently had a nightmare about being at Congress and, before I am scheduled to give a paper (but after the session on blogging!), I make myself puke so I dont have to admit that I hadn’t quite finished the thing.

Guess I should really get started on this paper (let the translating commence). Suddenly painting my bedroom ceiling looks so very interesting and attractive…

I should take a trip so I can write it on the plane like every else…;)

My inner slacker needs to be beaten and left to die in the elements.

I so wish I had teachers like these in high school! Fantastic work, gentlemen, fantastic!

Yes, I’m behind. Shocking, I know.

Medieval tiles found at Kazakhstan site.

1310 hall Headstone Manor again in state of renovation and preservation (I smell a future episode of Most Haunted, don’t you?)

Medieval sewerage unearthed in Brno

Priest’s hunch finally uncovers Porto’s hidden holy scrolls

Medieval archive could be history

Reconstructed Stone-Age circle in Germany catches sun’s rays

Bio-archaeologists pinpoint oldest Northern European human activity

Here are some source-URLs I’ve been meaning to post (e-texts in the Bibliotheca Augustana :

Malleus

De crimine magiae

And from the Gutenberg project:

A Treatise of Witchcraft, by Alexander Roberts (1616)

And some (non-IMA and Labyrinth, since most already know to look in those vast sites) Iberian source-sites of interest I snatched off a listserv posting (and now I can’t find the message, so apologies to whomever I’m not thanking properly):

Textos Lemir

LIBRO – The Library of Iberian Resources Online (secondary sources)

Textos de Literatura Galega Medieval

Documentos para el estudio de la Historia de la Iglesia Medieval

Textos en línea – Hispanomedievalismo

Digital documents contributed by AARHMS members

More to slog through and post, so stay tooned. I am a URL packrat, I swear. Happy new year to all, and thank goodness school starts again soon! 🙂

Remember when I posted briefly on the Kalamazoo Promise, an amazing gift to the parents and children here? Well, here is the best example of snobbish classicism and racism I’ve seen yet: “I am angered at The Kalamazoo Promise,” wrote Kimberly Ralicki, of Portage. “Why use financial gain to boost a poor school district when you could benefit students who really care in other school districts in Kalamazoo County?”

There are so very many things I can say about this jealous, insensitive, and senseless and her incredibly poor-sport attitude, not to mention my hopes that her children are not the racist, classist bigots she clearly is…
But I think I should end that rant right here.

It must be so very, very hard to continue to feel special and superior when those unwanteds to the north (who include university faculty, CEOs, and other moneyed [don’t forget old money, sweetheart. old money] and educated professions as well as those on assistance and the, apparently, stupid and uncaring working/middle class) are getting attention and tremendous investment in their childrens’ futures (and in the city itself ) by donors. Poor Kimberly. Other people in Portage, and in other surrounding communities, can manage to be happy for those children affected by the Promise even if their own are not…I guess it illustrates the difference between low-class and class-less.

Archaeologists find 4,500-year-old fortune-telling instruments
Greek archaeologists uncovered two prehistoric settlements
thanks to cronaca for the following:
Ancient Roman Anchors Found in Israel
CimabueÂ’s Assisi fresco reconstructed
What amazing news. I remember bursting into tears when I heard of the quake. That evening I had a grad class, with Simon as I recall, and was still 9/10 wreck. I had long sicne left the art dept. at that point, but those first reports, when the fate of Giotto’s cycle was still unknown, grabbed me by the throat.

(and it’s this point when the same people who can’t figure out why I didn’t go into all things Anglo-Saxon, since I dearly love Anglo-Saxon lit., will now chime in with ‘and why the heck didn’t you focus on art history instead of magical texts and inquisition, you dope!!??!?’ le sigh.)

This relates back to the series of posts I made between 9/14 (ADHD Awareness Day) and 9/26 (Blogging for Kids with Disabilities Day) (9/19 completes the set):

What Do Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities, ADHD, and Related Disorders Deal With

Some links I’ve been collecting all week:

Here we go again: Archaeologists rescuing relics for Three Gorges Dam

Scientists find ‘Goliath’ inscribed on pottery

‘Exceptional find’ of Iron Age warrior

Archaeologists find western world’s oldest map

Early Greek writing unearthed on Crete

No research allowed on Prestwich skeletons

Look, I’m a genius. Or something.: Melancholy’s positive energy

What a sad thing: David Pingree has died. I can’t describe how valuable his work has been to me. I had tried to get him invited here (as a plenarist), but I’m a minion and get no say, and I inquired of his program at Brown – and at that point they had recently stopped accepting applications due to the uncertainty and his retirement. I would have loved to work with the man on ancient and medieval astrological texts, loved to.

What a loss. He was unique, brilliant…his work was what really pulled me into my area of concentration, more than anything else. Really. ( have his Picatrix: The Latin Version sitting next to me, in fact.)

New stuff up!

Googole Print project

Article about researching historical works

Archaeologists unearth ancient burial mounds

Sassanid seals found at Iran Takht-e Soleiman

Archaeologists Claim Find of Ancient Hebrew Alphabet in Israel

You Know a Lot About Blogging

You got 5/8 correct! Your not a total blogging geek yet… give it time.

There are many things to say about many things. Important things in academia, in the land of blog, other places.

But I haven’t been saying them, although I want to, intend to, and maybe even will. But there is no time and no energy for that now.

My job is f-ing insane. Running and screaming might be the more understated option.

I feel like the anti-Tiny-Tim: ‘God damn you, every one.’