As Promised
It's Monday. And the movers are here! There is a most ferocious rustling of paper and skreeking of tape, and all my belongings are being wrapped up and boxed up and shipped out to...
View ArticleContinuing On
One of my good friends defended her dissertation yesterday! It was a fantastic defense, and, although I didn't get a chance to read the actual dissertation, I've heard her talk about her work enough...
View ArticleState Of The Pony
Currently, that would be Connecticut.In brief, because lots is happening: I made it safely out of Chicago and home to Connecticut and the welcoming arms of the Pony Parents. Yesterday, I was so tired I...
View ArticleRumblings
The Hartford Courant has been running lots of little squibs about the upcoming election on Scottish Independence. I'm beginning to wonder just what country I'm about to move to! Will it contain...
View ArticleAwwww
So this morning, timing worked out such that Dad Pony went out for his morning constitutional, I came downstairs, had breakfast, and had completely cleaned up from the meal by the time Dad Pony got...
View ArticleA Tad Bit Early
But better too early than not at all. I'm flying off to England tomorrow, and I'll land on Wednesday morning. Since I'll be basically pretty much incapacitated on the day itself:Shana Tova, everyone!...
View ArticleHere I Am!
Hi everyone! Here I am in lovely Cambridge! It's taken a while for things to get set up, and they're not quite fully set up yet, but the new computer (named "Marlowe," since Christopher Marlowe was a...
View ArticleSing To Me
I have a fun evening planned!Last Saturday, at shul, I was given an aliyah, since it was only my second time there. For those who don't know, an aliyah is the honor of reciting the blessings over the...
View ArticleThe Movers Are Coming!
I just heard from the moving company, and it looks like my household goods have cleared Customs, and will arrive on Tuesday. All hail Tuesday, the day my house will stop looking like a crack house and...
View ArticleAt Long Last
Cambridge is a biking kind of town, and I wanted to be mobile. I was advised to get a secondhand bike, since the big crime in Cambridge is bike theft (which tells you a lot about the place, really), so...
View ArticleTrailer for The Hobbit III: The Search For Tolkien
I went to see Mockingjay Part 1 today (very good movie, even if I'd forgotten just how long the commercials go on before movies in Europe). One of the trailers at the beginning was for Battle of the...
View ArticleEnd Of Term
It looks like Michaelmas term is wrapping up here in lovely Cambridge. I've been pretty busy this past week. Part of it is that I had a couple of friends over to visit, a colleague and his wife. They...
View ArticleRequiem!
It turns out that pickup choirs are not an exclusively American thing. I was at choir practice tonight, and one of the choir members was selling tickets for a charity pickup choir performance of...
View ArticleBike Like The Wind!
I'm now very curious to see what Mom Pony is going to give Aunt Pony for Hanukkah this year. She e-mailed me about an hour ago asking me to go out and find some good tea in a pretty container, and...
View ArticleBack In The Swing
Some people like to ease back into life after the holidays. Me, I just cannonball right in. Fieldwork, parties, book revisions . . . life certainly isn't boring at the moment!I went to London yesterday...
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The Big Sing
One of the things that I loved about living in the Midwest was that, every so often, there were these pickup choir events. I got to go to the singalong Messiah at the Lyric Opera once, and to KAMII's...
View ArticleKeee-razy!
I did it! I threw caution to the winds, and I booked plane tickets to Cork for the Ireland Sacred Harp Convention! Excitement!On account of a) lack of singings in Cambridge, and b) the expense and c)...
View ArticleUpcoming Holiday?
Apparently, tomorrow is something called Pancake Day.It's actually Mardi Gras, except without the parades, nudity and plastic beads, but with pancakes. Maybe I should make some pancakes and then...
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Traveling On
Off to Ireland today! Tomorrow, I get to sing and hang out with dot_o_choillmor. The day after, I get to sing some more. My weekend is looking fine indeed!
View ArticleYeesh
My goodness, it's been a long time. Stuff just kept happening, and I ended up doing too much to just sit down and write about it.The end of my first academic year at Cambridge is approaching, and it's...
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Dining in College
dawtheminstrel asked me about what dining in college was like. It's such a wacky, weird, and wonderful experience that I figured it deserved its own post. So here it is.Corpus dines four nights a week....
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A Very Happy Birthday
Happy birthday to fafojoy! Being me, we have to start the festivities with some music:And then there is the matter of a suitable birthday present. For that, I defer to those with much greater knowledge...
View ArticleWhen Life Gives You The Crazy
You just run with it.I dined at High Table tonight, mostly because one of my friends wanted to dine at High Table with me, and it was a tiny crowd. There were just four of us at dinner, which was...
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