$260!!!! In this economy?!?!

Can I interest anyone in some reasonably priced feet pics?!

Exploring the Prize Papers, a global early modern archive Using language skills, examine previously unknown records from the Prize Papers collection and produce descriptions to support digitisation.

Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!)
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

Given everything going on in the world right now, getting a speeding ticket on the interstate in Texas feels like it should be illegal.

Yet, here I am feeling physically ill from guilt?!? Da fuk!!?

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

Democrat James Talarico posts $27 million as fundraising surges in Texas Senate race Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico said his latest numbers reinforces Talarico’s campaign's fundraising muscle

Democrat James Talarico said Wednesday his campaign raised $27 million in the first three months of 2026, an early, massive haul for his Senate campaign.

a woman drinking from a mug that says ' sd ' on the front Alt: a woman drinking from a mug while surroundings burn down with the caption ”everything is fine” flashing

Me trying to work from home (already a doozy of a request) while the fire alarm goes off incessantly 🫥

Don’t be reviewer #2!!

Open to all, not just historians of French and Francophone colonial history

Love waking up from a dead sleep to have a panic attack.

No warning. Just eyes open up and BAM 2-hour anxiety spiral! 😵‍💫

Just another closed off strait. Compulsory heterosexuality strikes again.

Call for papers for the Western Conference on British Studies this October in Denton, TX. Deadline extended to May 1! 🗃️ www.wcbs.org/cfp

Pleased to announce I am finally ready to start on the thing I planned to have submitted at 1pm today...so right on schedule!

Stay at the CARAN!

Pierrefitte is so sad in comparisons, and there is no quality food options.

I went like 3 times and it was enough for a life time :)

Screenshot of the title card for the 1994 cinematic masterpiece: The Swan Princess

As a child, I broke my foot by pulling a TV down on myself trying to get the VHS of this movie, which had been taken for me because I was obsessed.

So yea, I was GAAYYY :)

Even after 6 follow up emails, I have still heard NOTHING about my application to adopt a cat.

The kitties I had hoped to adopt are no longer available, so I’ve been updating my options as I email 🫠

It’s the end of the world— just let me have a cat! I’m a good person!

“A great many things keep happening, some good, some bad”. Gregory of Tours (539-594):

Evergreen, and the essentials have never felt less essential.

Dark chocolate. I’m a good boy; I’d never break the law— if that’s what’s you’re implying😇

How many brownies is too many to eat in a day?

As I go into hour two of an insomnia interlude, I can’t help but wonder if I should put those glow-in-the-dark stars on my bedroom ceiling so I have something to stare at during these episodes

Girl - you have a swimming pool?!

The cocktails I’d be having in the middle of the day while telling anyone who questioned me that “thinking is working!”

We hope to see you at our Speaker Series next week!

Yuan Yi, from Concordia University, will be hosting a talk and discussion titled: "China at the Center of the Global Cotton Trade: When Cotton Was Yellow”

3-5pm on April 8. Peterson Hall, rm 116.

Free snacks and coffee!

It’s so impossible to do any kind of work right now beyond the absolute essentials.

The Uni had some accommodations I think for visiting researchers, Depending on how long you’re there.

Vibes of the US Government these days

Begging publications/new outlets to ask actual scholars of subjects to review books rather looking to employee at fancy schools with only a passing knowledge on the subject.

Mentally where I am? Sobbing at “Hacks”.

My favorite* thing to do is to not eat all day and then wondering why I feel like a miserable Dickensian wretch with low-self esteem.

*not really, but I do it so often you’d think it was.

You’re treating science as a timeless entity based on an abstract notion of objectivity when historically it is a socially constructed practice that is constantly and unavoidably filled with biases. Scientists have thought some people were lesser much longer than they have believed in equality

A perfectly golden lemon pound Bundt cake

Timeline cleanser:

Please appreciate my perfectly golden lemon pound cake — I love him like a child, will be sad when I have eaten him.

Why do the French get everything good?!?!

Is it the reward for being “so committed” to the principles of liberty that you “abolish slavery twice”?!