There are so many things that I would like to post about, but somehow recently the only time I think of to write something is late at night when I should be sleeping! It is now 12.02 and I just had to get something down...
The past few weeks have flown by. I was in Germany visiting friends and did some research in an archive as well. This was the first time I have even gone to a 'real' (that is, with old unpublished documents) archive. I looked through folders and tried to decipher handwritten notes. I pretty much failed to do the second, but photocopies do not help handwritting in the least. And most of it was in German...but I did find one lecture given by Hannah Arendt which I can use for my research and this will be great to have. I was able to photocopy the whole thing. There is one folder which I was not able to read through while I was there, but an excuse to go back will be nice!
Teaching has started and I once again have a good group of students, although this week they were a little tired and I was exhausted, so conversation would go really well for about 10 minutes and then they would drift. I managed to make it through about 1 1/2 hours and then I ran out of stuff to bring up. Next week I will have a better handle on things.
However, this Friday the conference that I have been organising for 4 months starts (which is also on archives!) and I am up to my ears in details which all need to happen between now and Friday at 13.00. The conference should be great and I am very much looking forward to it...although I don't even really know what I am going to be doing during it. Hopefully things will run smoothly and I won't have to do much trouble shooting during the actual conference itself.
Water, food, tables, chairs, AV equipment, lighting, security, name tags, programmes, and coffee have all been looked after. Now I just need the people to show up and the whole thing will happen! Well, at this point I have 50 people registered and more who will show up on Friday. I need 60 people to eat all the food I ordered...
Meanwhile, I tried making braised celery last night. It was excellent on rice with some grated parmesan. Also, a very good recipe for Plaice steamed in a sauce in foil envelopes, and I think that pumpkin bread is on the menu for this weekend...yum! I love autumn food!
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