La Société des Études Supérieures du Département d'Études Françaises est ravie de vous inviter à son colloque annuel du 11 au 13 avril 2024 au Charbonnel Lounge, Elmsley Hall (81 St Mary St), sur le thème « Poéthiques de la trace : inscription et effacement dans la littérature ».

Of all the medieval medical compendiums I read for my dissertation, *only* urology texts make me feel large amounts of sympathy pain. I will never again take antibiotics and AZO for granted.

Five years ago I would have never seen myself trying to write a chapter section about a 70-year-old retired diplomat who, in the late 13th century, *sincerely* referred to amoral young girls as “little bitches” (garces).

Absolutely losing it over the third bird trying to pretend like it isn't eavesdropping.

Things preventing me from writing my dissertation: 1. All the paperwork requiring me to write a 3-5 page description of my dissertation.

One perk of my Ph.D. is that I can now cite dozens of traditional Christian sources that state that no, a nine-year-old shouldn’t ever have a baby, actually.

Please…I’m begging…just give us Office and Adobe.

The existence of Pimsleur implies the existence of: Pimsmon/Pimsma/Pimsmes, Pimston/Pimsta/Pimstes, Pimsson/Pimssa/Pimsses, Pimsnotre/Pimsnos, and Pimsvotre/Pimsvos.

This is SO GOOD. I want one.

When your palaeography teacher tells you to just count the minims

This image summarizes my secondary sources better than my intro chapter does.

I need to stop with the self-deprecating humor because I’m a professional in French of all things, the least self-deprecating culture there is. It’s a tough habit to break because at my core I’m a Midwest Princess (raised in the heart of “ope, sorry”-ville).

mood

Je ne savais pas que « seeing stars » était une si vieille expression ! The more you know. (Renaut de Montauban, éd. Thomas, l. 2173-4).

I need to see Willem Dafoe as Charlemagne. Someone give me Willem Dafoe as Charlemagne.

This woman should be the Time person of the year I'm not kidding.

Sometimes I worry about AI, and then I read its manuscript transcriptions

Thomas Porcher - Le vacataire Expérience vécue de la précarité à luniversité À paraître en avril chez Stock

An unstoppable force (me going to work) meet an unmovable object (French high schoolers having a smoke before class).