In lieu of content have a photo!post

[highlyeccentric]

This is me, with baby Gremlin's teddy. (Or possibly GremlinMother's teddy, Gremlin's not that interested in large teddies yet.) I babysat for a few hours on friday, which he spent asleep, so I spent a few hours napping in front of a fan and it was *glorious*.

I would like to state that babies continue to be excellent academic therapy. Gremlin can be a difficult little human (although I've not had him at his most... explosive. Just shouty. I have yet to meet the 'crapocalypse' mode). But he doesn't care about my thesis. He is extremely demanding but these demands do not include 'think complex thoughts'. Ergo, he is good for me.


Gremlin understands that iPhones are something you show off for. (I got an iphone. Thus far it's glorious.)


Probably a hollyhock flower.


Bridge near my house.


Basil from my basil plants.


Said basil plants, with parsley and chrysanthemums.

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[monksandbones]

Yay photos instead of content. Baby Gremlin's teddy makes me miss Gingomar the narwhal, whom I had to cruelly abandon on my bed lo these six hours ago.

In other news, I have reconceived my paper for the second time today while sitting in the Toronto Airport, and maybe this time it will stick. I've narrowed down my previous ideas to talk about what constituted a good death in eleventh-century Brittany the better to highlight how we can see affection coming into play in the charter I've been on about that involved a Bad Death (possibly happening to someone that people particularly didn't want a Bad Death for). Once I send the abstract I have to write that paper, right?

But I'm starting with an introduction about how the acts behind charters should have been FULL OF FEEEEELS BUT WE CAN'T REALLY GET AT THEM, DAMMIT.

Also, I'm sitting in the airport still working on my paper. I'm the worst.