One nice thing about LiveJournal is that it is not connected to Facebook, so one can vent things here that would not be useful/appropriate in that much more public space ( Read more... )

I have been trying to find out what the Dutch is for phrases and expressions that I use all the time. Things like Please and Thank You are easy enough (Sorry, Alstublieft, Dank u wel) but how and when they are applied in everyday are harder to figure out ( Read more... )

Had a productive Friday evening hanging out with the English Dept. of UvA -- My friend tells me that they have a huge need for someone to teach 19th cent., so I am working up a syllabus that would address 19th century in American and British lit. I am using my work on Monsters to kind of guide the discussion and make it 'sexy' enough for the ( Read more... )

At the same time I have too much going on, and nothing going on ( Read more... )

It is not that I am bored here -- Lord knows there is tons that I can do and many places to visit and see. Just that I am not making any money and have no job, which is kind of a shock since at the last post I had a great job where every little thing I did resulted in massive amounts of positive feedback ( Read more... )

So, the job search has not gone as super stellar as I had planned. Meaning, there was not a line of universities waiting at our doorstep when we moved in. I sent out letters to the people my friend suggested, and am applied to an actual job advertised (but have not heard anything, yet), and I plan to send out letters of inquiry and C.V to HR ( Read more... )

Jake just posted something on FB about having insomnia, yet being tired -- so he stays up watching SVU, etc ( Read more... )

I was just thinking this morning that I was being a waste of skin since I have not really done anything academic, and then I went to the grocery store ( Read more... )

So far, we have been doing quite a bit of walking--which is a nice change! Yesterday, I decided to go to Praxis, which is like a home depot but Euro. Thing is, the nearest one is 2.7k away. Now, if I had not known the exact distance (thanks to the map function on the ipod) I would not have minded the walk before setting out. (Plus, it was rainy ( Read more... )

First of all, it is the day after Christmas, which makes it Boxing day in the U.K., and according to Jake, it makes it little christmas here ( Read more... )