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choco_froshTwo members of the Uni-Chor meet outside the Course Reserve room in the library.
J: Hi! I thought you were in Kiev.
L: That´s what I thought too. But I also thought we were leaving on Thursday.
J: Oh no!
L:...The schedule go changed around so many times, and at one point the plan was that we were leaving on Thursday. So that´s what was in my Calendar.
J: That´s awful.
L: It´s my own stupid fault. And anyway, it´s not so bad--I´ve got a lot of work to do.
J: THAT I can understand.
L: So what are you doing?
J: (wishing to avoid the fact that the sheet of paper he´s just photocopied is NOT, in fact, an assignment, but just a specimen of a really pretty 12th century hand) I decided to stay here because I had so much work to do, but ironically I haven´t gotten much done...
L: (makes sympathetic noises)
J: ...everything was closed yesterday.
Explanation and Commentary:
The Choir, including Grace, headed off Wednesday morning on a 36-hr train ride to Kiev, where they´re going to be visiting and performing with the group that visited us. Apparently, they had to bring all their own food for the train ride with them, so Grace spent a lot of Tuesday making devilled eggs and chicken salad.
I stayed home because, well, I only have five more weeks before I have to start packing. Unfortunately, what with the concert I´d been too preoccupied to figure out WHAT, exactly, I would be researching while Grace was gone. Had I been more organized, I reflected gloomily on Wednesday, I would have been boarding a train myself, so as to spend a couple days in Karlsruhe working in the Staatsarchiv and crashing on someone´s floor. But as it turned out, it wouldn´t have mattered. Thursday was Christi Himmelfahrt, so while the pious celebrated the Ascension, the employees of all the archives went on vacation. Hence the Kantonsarchiv in Frauenfeld (plan B) was already closed when I tried to contact them on Wednesday; the i>Stadtarchiv in Überlingen (plan C) was still open when I phoned them, but they didn´t think they had the manuscript I wanted. This, they opined, was probably in the Herzogin Sophie Bibliothek (gets updated to Plan C2) in the town...whose custodian is apparently off sick. And today was right out: Latin class this morning preempts any plans for trips to random libraries, and I´ve looked at MOST of the relevant material in the Stadtarchiv here...which, in any case, is open for only two hours this afternoon!
So I´ve been at a bit of a loose end. I decided to go to church on Thursday, and since I didn´t feel like facing a second First Communion service, opted for the Lutherans, who had it outside in unsettled weather. (It was, nonetheless, packed out--possibly because they brought along a brass ensemble) For the rest of the time, I´ve been working though the Regesta, and finishing up one or two books.
And yes, trying to figure out how to make the Greeks the dominant civilization in a computer-generated world.
Oh well. It´s just as well, since my Dad´s coming to visit on Sunday, and it would not be so fun for him if we were both in Kiiyev!
J: Hi! I thought you were in Kiev.
L: That´s what I thought too. But I also thought we were leaving on Thursday.
J: Oh no!
L:...The schedule go changed around so many times, and at one point the plan was that we were leaving on Thursday. So that´s what was in my Calendar.
J: That´s awful.
L: It´s my own stupid fault. And anyway, it´s not so bad--I´ve got a lot of work to do.
J: THAT I can understand.
L: So what are you doing?
J: (wishing to avoid the fact that the sheet of paper he´s just photocopied is NOT, in fact, an assignment, but just a specimen of a really pretty 12th century hand) I decided to stay here because I had so much work to do, but ironically I haven´t gotten much done...
L: (makes sympathetic noises)
J: ...everything was closed yesterday.
Explanation and Commentary:
The Choir, including Grace, headed off Wednesday morning on a 36-hr train ride to Kiev, where they´re going to be visiting and performing with the group that visited us. Apparently, they had to bring all their own food for the train ride with them, so Grace spent a lot of Tuesday making devilled eggs and chicken salad.
I stayed home because, well, I only have five more weeks before I have to start packing. Unfortunately, what with the concert I´d been too preoccupied to figure out WHAT, exactly, I would be researching while Grace was gone. Had I been more organized, I reflected gloomily on Wednesday, I would have been boarding a train myself, so as to spend a couple days in Karlsruhe working in the Staatsarchiv and crashing on someone´s floor. But as it turned out, it wouldn´t have mattered. Thursday was Christi Himmelfahrt, so while the pious celebrated the Ascension, the employees of all the archives went on vacation. Hence the Kantonsarchiv in Frauenfeld (plan B) was already closed when I tried to contact them on Wednesday; the i>Stadtarchiv in Überlingen (plan C) was still open when I phoned them, but they didn´t think they had the manuscript I wanted. This, they opined, was probably in the Herzogin Sophie Bibliothek (gets updated to Plan C2) in the town...whose custodian is apparently off sick. And today was right out: Latin class this morning preempts any plans for trips to random libraries, and I´ve looked at MOST of the relevant material in the Stadtarchiv here...which, in any case, is open for only two hours this afternoon!
So I´ve been at a bit of a loose end. I decided to go to church on Thursday, and since I didn´t feel like facing a second First Communion service, opted for the Lutherans, who had it outside in unsettled weather. (It was, nonetheless, packed out--possibly because they brought along a brass ensemble) For the rest of the time, I´ve been working though the Regesta, and finishing up one or two books.
And yes, trying to figure out how to make the Greeks the dominant civilization in a computer-generated world.
Oh well. It´s just as well, since my Dad´s coming to visit on Sunday, and it would not be so fun for him if we were both in Kiiyev!
