"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know." John Keats
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I've been digital scrapbooking. Don't judge. It's a welcome relief from grad school. Here's a few examples. Notice that they are mostly of me and my love, Jor. I mean, if you can't digiscrap your heart's happiness, then what really?
My brother asked me the other day what it was that I did in the archives. He had a vision of gas lights and catacombs and old parchment paper. I gave him the run down and I’ll post it here also because I’ve had the question from others. Dear Brother! I like the catacomb vision although sadly, this isn't totally the case here in modern industrialized Britain. I mostly just go into this big building that sits on a man-made lake (next to the Thames) and then I go upstairs to where some guards in jackets ask to look through my stuff and then I swipe a card that lets me pass. Then I swipe my card again and it tells me my seat assignment and cubby number for the day (usually 27D). Then I go to my cubby and pull out the dusty old whatevers I’m looking at. For instance, today I looked at whole books of correspondence, called CO from the Colonial Office. Apparently, way back in the day (i.e. the eighteenth century, and possibly before and after too), when noble men wrote letters to each oth...
Ryan Air does a good job of scaring travelers into early arrival. Or maybe it was just me. First off, I got our departure time all messed up. I was convinced that our flight left at 1pm. I told this to Joren and our landlady a number of times. Simultaneously, I also thought that our flight arrived at 10pm. I told this to myself and Henry and Erin (my Vanderbilt friend who we were rooming with in Sevilla). At no point did it occur to me that a 9 hour flight was only plausible for overseas travel, and usually not even Atlantic travel at that. It wasn’t until Friday night around 6:30 that I was speaking all the times aloud to Joren that it dawned on me that I might have confused airplane times. It’s usually good to recheck these things. A quick look at the printed tickets showed that yes, indeed I had mistaken the departure And arrival time. Now a 4:30 flight that arrived at 7:30 seemed more plausible. I sent off a quick email to Henry and told him to meet us at 7:30 pm instead of 10pm. I...
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