I’m in Ottawa, spent most of the last few days reading. Read about 12 hours in one day. That’s definitely a new record for me. Spending all my money in coffee shops though, cause I can’t stay awake on my own uncaffeinated power and second, I can’t seem to do serious work at home. So [...]

I’m back in Toronto for a brief stint. And as usual I’m working. Even though I thought that this semester would be much easier than last, due to the fact that I only have to be on campus two days of the week, it seems, again, that I was very wrong. I can already feel [...]

I’m sitting in my other home, Bridgehead, the amazing coffee-shop. I’m putting together a proposal for a conference in Montreal. I hope it gets accepted. I just love Montreal. Real nice city… Some good news today. It seems that the roomie came over to my side with some of the cleaning issues. Only time will [...]

The whirlwind has passed. I finished the paper and taught the class, and now back to … here? I arrive to find the shared apartment in a mess and a scent that can only be described as a locker full of gym socks with extra funk. I try not to be picky about certain things, [...]

Back to work already. Not like I really left here anyway. I’m slogging away on a historiography paper and making a bit of headway on it. Not too much, but a bit. Hopefully I can get it done before Monday. The first rough, rough cut is done, but now some meat needs to be put [...]

So the year has started. With a snow storm. I guess this is still Canada. But it’s not all bad, last night was lots of fun. Right now I’m in a Coffeetime on Lawrence, writing, reading and gearing up for a major paper that will be due in about a week. I’ll be spending the [...]