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Journal created:
on 28 February 2003 (#925348)
Updated:
on 10 April 2017
Name:
Ten O'Clock Medievalist
By day, meek and nerdy doctoral student in medieval history. By night, sleeping meek and nerdy doctoral student in medieval history, unless I've been making poor time-management choices, in which case I would be a meek and nerdy doctoral student in the middle of an all-nighter. I'm an often-homesick crypto-Canadian based in Boston for grad school purposes, currently lurking with manuscripts in various archives in western France, doing dissertation research on medieval Brittany (precise dissertation topic TBD) currently mostly to be found in my office writing lectures for my pre-modern world history class and daydreaming about the Sedins having time for research again.
For the fannish among you, in a new twist, I'm currently kind of into hockey RPF. I also lurk and read in various tiny medieval and not-so-medieval literature micro-fandoms. Like almost everyone else, I cut my fannish teeth in Harry Potter fandom, and I've also been active in the past few years in the Stargate fandoms, especially Stargate SG-1. Long before any of that, there was Lord of the Rings, which completely captivated me when I was seven years old, and well, now I'm a medievalist.
Most of what you'll find here is the workaday details of my real life, with (increasingly occasional) fannish interludes. If you think that sounds interesting, you're welcome to pull a chair up to the fire and follow along. Friend and comment and I'll probably friend back.
The weather in Vernon, BC:
The weather in Boston, MA:
For the fannish among you, in a new twist, I'm currently kind of into hockey RPF. I also lurk and read in various tiny medieval and not-so-medieval literature micro-fandoms. Like almost everyone else, I cut my fannish teeth in Harry Potter fandom, and I've also been active in the past few years in the Stargate fandoms, especially Stargate SG-1. Long before any of that, there was Lord of the Rings, which completely captivated me when I was seven years old, and well, now I'm a medievalist.
Most of what you'll find here is the workaday details of my real life, with (increasingly occasional) fannish interludes. If you think that sounds interesting, you're welcome to pull a chair up to the fire and follow along. Friend and comment and I'll probably friend back.
The weather in Vernon, BC:
The weather in Boston, MA:
academia, alan of brittany, anathema clauses, anglo-saxon chronicle, armchair curling, awesome and sexy coats, back-stabbing angevins, baking, beowulf, big trees-not big stumps, books, boromir's shield boss, bretons, british columbia, canada, canadian history, canadian politics, cape breton 2004, cape breton fiddle, capetians, carolingians, cartularies, celtic languages, celtic music, charters, chipotle, cooking, cultural history, daydreaming, diplomatics, domesday book, economic history, efficient interlibrary loans, eleventh-century brittany, fandom, fanfiction, fangirling brenda stubbert, fangirling emmanuel leroy ladurie, fangirling natalie zemon davis, fiddle, fiddle tunes, footnotes, france/anjou otp, french, gregory vii/urban ii otp!!!11!!, guillaume tête d'étoupe, histoire totale, historical archaeology, historiography, history, hockey, hugging trees, hugues mange-breton, hwaet, inappropriate monk love, languages, late antiquity, latin, livejournal, lord of the rings, lumberjack plaid check, making yogurt, marcher lords, medieval brittany, medieval france, medieval frontiers, medieval history, merovingians, multilingualism, music, my overlords the bretons, neustria, not marrying a medievalist, okanagan valley, oxford, peanut butter and jam, primary sources, ranae in gurgite nigrae, reading, rebel lords, rennes, running, saint-sauveur de redon, silly medieval epithets, slashing philip augustus-with anyone, slings & arrows, social history, socialism, star wars original trilogy, stargate sg-1, sub-carolingian neustria, talking to medievalists, tea, tengwar, the glorious socialist future, the long eleventh century, toast, travel, unnecessarily silly socks, vancouver canucks, vegetarianism, vikings, writing, yvain/gauvain otp 4evah!!!11!!
