First day of substitute teaching went extraordinarily well. Tidied up some footnotes and read some Augustine. #amwriting #amwritinghistory #histodons

EndNote’s doing a pretty good job proving my theory that citation management software actually costs time, rather than saves it, after time spent troubleshooting is factored in. #amwriting #amwritinghistory

Didn't turn into much of a writing day, but at least I had a pretty writing buddy.

#RescueCat #AcademicsWithCats #CatsOfMastodon #MastodonCats #catstodon #AdoptDontShop #Fedicats #MastoCats  #CatContent #Gatos #Katze #amwriting #amwritinghistory

Today #amediting some sections on the Pelagian controversy that went on for way too long because I couldn’t figure out how to juggle the topics of grace, predestination and free will . . . much like the controversy itself.

#history #histodons #amwriting #amwritinghistory #theology #LateAntiquity

There are worse places to be #amwriting. 🇱🇧

#Beirut #Lebanon #amwritinghistory

About to start a long series of flights and layovers, and I swear I'm going to get some work done this time.

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Classicists can be a weird bunch. Two words can be an allusion to the Aeneid just brimming with significance, but I need a time machine to prove that hagiography was read in the mass.
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Today #amwritinghistory about my author's use of cursus, thankful for the German philologist who did all the heavy lifting 100 years ago.

#amwriting #Latin #classics #LateAntiquity

Call me a junky, but I swear #cannabis helps me get out of certain analytical ruts in my writing. I think it does this by causing me to make connections that I normally wouldn’t, and sometimes those shifts get me saying what I wanted to say in the first place. #marijuana #amwriting #amwritinghistory

#amWritingHistory and realizing that half of my dissertation’s main text really belonged in footnotes. #amwriting

Today #amwritinghistory about a certain hagiographer’s compilation process, and it’s kind of fun to see the places where he clearly went, “Ugh, ok, what do I do with this . . .”

#medieval #medievalstudies

Solid #writing advice, in my experience.
https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2023/04/14/writing-advice-for-thesis-season-write-drunk-edit-sober-rinse-and-repeat-2/

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YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1826:
"The Indians who visit us differ from those above... Their dwellings are Wooden or plank Huts, which appear permanent and must afford a more comfortable residence than the Mat erections of the Indians above. Their canoes are also superior in point of construction... Noon we had strong Breezes with heavy Rains. At 3 pm we arrived at the Cascades, which is the last Obstruction in the Columbia River. We make a Portage here.... #History #Books #AmWritingHistory

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1826:
"At 2 pm we arrived at the Shoots [Chutes] Falls, were we had to make a Portage of our Boats & Luggage for about 1/2 Mile across a Rocky Portage on the North shore, which occupied us two hours. We found about 70 Indians Encamped upon this Portage, who conducted themselves peaceably, the men upon our guard so as to resist any aggression. We gave the chief some tobacco to have a Smoke, when they ranged their Tribes about... #History #Books #AmWritingHistory

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1826:
"Commenced fair, a strong Breeze from the SW till 7 am. We Embarked from #WallaWalla and continued our descent of the Columbia. We fell in with the Horse Brigade at our Breakfast Encampment. Noon, strong Breezes. The River has expanded considerably, being now little short of a Mile. We passed numerous Indians along the Banks of the River, who importuned us very much for Tobacco. At our night's Encampment they collected about us.... #AmWritingHistory #Boostodon

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1826:
"The morning Showery. We Embarked at 4 am, having descended the River SE about 4 Leagues we arrived at the confluence of the Yaccama #Yakima River falling in from the West. It is to the confluence of this River the HBC proposes removing the Establishment of #WallaWalla. On descending about 3 Leagues further we arrived at the Junction of Lewis & Clark's Branch, the supposed boundary of the United States... #CanadaHistory #WAHistory #AmWritingHistory #Books

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1826:
"A frost thro' the night, followed by fine Weather during the day. Not withstanding the apparent Sterility of this Spot [Fort #Okanogan], Mr. Francis Ermatinger has succeeded in rising Potatoes of an excellent quality on a more fertile spot some distance from the Fort, on an elevated situation where the Soil possesses more moisture than on the lower ground. He had formed a Garden, also on the Banks of the #Okanagan River... #AmWritingHistory #Books #Bookstodon

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS, 1826:
"The Scenery about these Falls is very grand, the rigid & projecting cliffs hanging in fantastic forms over this awful clash of Water, which from the channels being contracted by these projecting Cliffs, the stream urges its way through with such accumulated force that its surface forms immense Whirlpools; on the left of the falls is an Eminence on whose Summit you see a great number of the burial places of the Natives... #History #Books #AmWritingHistory #WAHistory

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1826:
"AT 11 we passed the Junction of the Flathead [Pend-d'Oreille] River, another important stream, it issues from between two Rocky precipices & forms a considerable cascade at its Mounth. At Noon we passed the Junction of the White Sheep River, at 1.30 we ran the Dalles Rapids, a long shoot bounded by steep Rocky Cliffs & having a remarkable block of Rock, of considerable height, rising perpendicular in the bed of the River. #History #Books #AmWritingHistory

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1826:
"We found our land party at #Jasper's House, who had arrived only this Morning. They report the Track by land to be the most difficult and laborious, leading thro' extensive Forests, they frequently lost themselves, & the great quantity of burnt Wood strewed over the face of the Country in many places was a formidable obstruction. We found Mr. Drummond here, a gentleman connected with the Polar Expedition... #History #Books #CanadaHistory #AmWritingHistory