Below are the most recent 7 friends' journal entries.

Monday, December 28th, 2009
tarimanveri	3:17p	Medievalists! Although ABD except for a German exam and three deferred credits, I am still far less than mighty in understanding the ways of the Medieval Academy of America. Thus, I call upon your accumulated wisdom... How do you renew your Medieval Academy of America membership? Can you do it over the phone? Is there something I should have gotten in the mail as the email implied? Is there a printable form hidden on the website somewhere? Did I miss some other piece of arcane lore? Did I fail to tap into the collective medievalist unconscious at some point and miss psychically renewing my membership? Please advise. There are things that require membership as of mid-January that I'm probably going to have to apply for. In other news, so far I have achieved two out of my three resolutions for the day, and still have hopes for the third. Current Mood: curious (2 Comments |Comment on this)
tarimanveri	12:04a	The last two days have been hibernation-tastic, and that's really okay for a few days the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve. But I'm getting bored now, so I have three resolutions for tomorrow: 1) Get up earlier 2) Spend less of the day in my pyjamas 3) Go outside the house To which I should probably add: 4) Work on LJ posting backlog. But really, that's not what I'm here for tonight. Tonight, I'm here to add my bucketful to the deluge of Yuletide recs! Despite the fact that there's more difference in fandoms between this year's Yuletide and last year's than I would have expected (including the absence of some fandoms that I miss!), there's endless excellent fic this year. ENDLESS. But to rec some that really stood out: ( Brother Cadfael, Canadian Politics RPF, Slings & Arrows, The Secret Garden, The Sound of Music, Anne of Green Gables, Lord Peter Wimsey, Ramona Quimby, and Anastasia Krupnik... ) And I think that's all for now. Perhaps some rereading of new favorite is now in order, before I go to sleep in a relatively timely fashion the better to carry out tomorrow's resolutions. Current Mood: lazy (Comment on this)
Friday, December 25th, 2009
tarimanveri	1:55p	EEEE! I finally got a chance to read my Yuletide story! It's called Bitter Water, and it's fantastic! It's a post-series Brother Cadfael Mysteries story, and it's long, and plotty, and has Cadfael, Hugh, AND Olivier de Bretagne, and did I mention plotty? And set during the last, drawn-out days of the Anarchy? And plot! And intrigue! And did I mention the shiny, shiny historical background of the end of the Anarchy? Sooooo exciting! Thank you, mystery author! I'm all a-squee, as is my inner medievalist. Now I must go and read it again and see about leaving feedback on the site, although I fear contributing to killing AO3 again. Current Mood: gleeful! (Comment on this)
Monday, December 21st, 2009
tarimanveri	5:58p	And I'm uploaded, with ten minutes to spare! The last twenty minutes were figuring out AO3 and setting up my pseuds, but whatever. As far as I can tell, it's up! ARMS OF YULETIDE WIN! \o/ \o/ \o/ And apparently just in time, too. Ugh, cramps. Time to beetle off in search of drugs. Current Mood: ow ow ow (5 Comments |Comment on this)
amatyultare	7:57p	like all the things you can fit inside a memory So, yesterday evening I lost my phone somewhere between my car, the Biddeford Hannaford, and Jason's apartment. After much checking and attempting to call it, I concluded it's lost forever and bought a new one. Now I need to recreate my address book. Everyone, text or call me, please? My number is the same; if you don't have it, let me know. I am fairly pleased with my new phone (QWERTY keyboard FTW!) and it wasn't as expensive as I feared due to the niceness of the Verizon store folks, but I feel slightly disgruntled and somewhat guilty that I was so careless. In other news, work stress is gradually bleeding over into life stress, primarily because of Christmas. I'm averaging about nine hours a day at work now, not including lunch, which is lower than the average 10 hours a day a few weeks back but is still a long day. And I'm so behind on everything that I am constantly fighting mental inertia - I have no idea how I'll ever get caught up, so it's easy to slow down and just get the minimum done, and I really have to push myself to do more. This all equates to little time and less mental energy to think up and shop for Christmas presents. I still have several people to buy gifts for - this is by far the most down-to-the-wire Christmas I've ever had. Eh, enough whining. My life is actually really good - I'm having a lot of fun, my friends are great, and Jason is amazing. I'm just a little tired, and therefore grumpy. But it will pass. More importantly: PHONE NUMBERS. And I shall venture out of Panera on what will hopefully be my last shopping trip of the Christmas season. Current Mood: tired Current Music: blue - calvin harris (3 Comments |Comment on this)
tarimanveri	10:13a	Have now written 347 contiguous words on my Yuletide fic. Have told emergency eleventh-hour betas that I'll send something to them in another hour and forty-seven minutes. Must endeavor to subtly introduce more pining. Edit, 11:16: 516 words, yay! I may end up with a story yet. Edit, 1:48: 760 words! Currently pausing for tea, internet, and consideration of what to have my characters say next. Four hours and ten more minutes. Current Mood: stomach digesting itself, ow (Comment on this)
Friday, December 18th, 2009
tarimanveri	10:55p	So, I'm in Vernon and I live. I made it home safely and on time, and I seem to have missed a major East coast snowpocalypse by leaving Boston early this year. Hopefully everyone else I know who will be travelling will also be able to make it home safely and close to on time (I know of at least one of my students who is worried that she won't be able to make it home). Here, it was quite cold up to about the day before I got home. Since then, it's been above zero and slushy and drizzly. Not my favorite, but I'm not going to complain. Anyway, I'm planning a substantive post wrapping up my semester and posting my thoughts on where I go from here (France, I hope), but that's going to take time, and right now I'm very busy with catching up on sleep and with my siblings, and there is also Yuletide. I'm trying not to panic about Yuletide. But I think I'd better go and get back to reviewing my canon. Oh, and my siblings and I ran into one of the former science teachers from my former high school today (I was never in his class, but he taught two of my siblings and knew who the other two of us were). As he was somewhat overbearing in his delight at finding all four of us out and about together, I took great pleasure in informing him that I'm currently working on a PhD in history in Boston. Normally my Vernon response to what I'm doing these days is along the lines of mumblemumblegradschoolmumble, but I felt he required the intimidating-details version. Normally I also specify what university in the Boston area I'm NOT working on my PhD at, but I kind of let that go today. Um, oops? Current Mood: sleepy (Comment on this)