Yesterday afternoon Petra and I made a trip to town for some lunch and shopping and one-on-one time. Our last stop before heading home was Jysk, where she’d seen some slippers she wanted. It turned out to be a fortuitous stop, for not only did she get the slippers, but she was also treated to… Read More Saturday

I’ve been trying to deny it, but there’s just no escaping the fact that fall is well and truly upon us. Leaves are falling from the trees, early mornings find the car windows frosted over, and more often than not, these days, we’ve got a fire going in the wood stove. I walked with the… Read More Seasonal

Home of Uppsala University’s history department.

This week I had class scheduled for yesterday and today, so I’d planned to fly down to Uppsala on Sunday evening. My plane was supposed to take off at 6:30, which should have gotten me to my hotel around 8:30, giving me plenty of time to settle in and get rested up before my 9:00… Read More This is Tuesday, right?

Four days at home have flown by entirely too quickly, and — as I’m afraid I expected — I didn’t get any reading done. Tomorrow morning I have a seminar for which I need to have read some 600 pages, and I’m still a couple of hundred shy. Lucky for me I have some travel… Read More Sunday

This is my just my third trip for school and already I’m starting to feel like I live at the airport. As I was typing that sentence, a woman came up to me and asked — I’m not kidding — if I worked here. Clearly the place is leaving its mark on me.

I’m off to the airport again in a half-hour, then down to Uppsala, where a long night of reading awaits me. Turns out it’s practically impossible to read dry, too-wordy texts about fiscal-military states while minding a pre-schooler and a toddler.

So, at long last, I am a graduate student. The enterprise had rather a rocky start, fairly literally, on Monday morning when I tripped on an uneven paving stone on my way from the train station in Uppsala. Before I had time to realize what was happening, I found myself in a faceplant on the… Read More Report