Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Change of plan for the rest of the week: Pretty sure I'm going to be home with Gwen, whom I expect to show signs of hand-foot-mouth disease tomorrow or Thursday. Oh well. Maybe I'll get some reading done.

Reading

• Read some more of Malink.

Writing

• Nope, not going to get anything significant done today, so I worked on my MED index for awhile. That requires little thought and allows frequent interruption.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

Conferences

• Cluster talk, "What is Nāgārjuna refuting? New interpretations of some central concepts"

Miscellaneous

Monday, January 20, 2014

Reading

• After lunch I was feeling the usual Monday slump and wishing I just had something to read. Alas, I think Malinck is at home, so I returned to finish reading Ruffini which I'd started last week.
• I also went through a bunch of my JSTOR tabs, skimming articles and either deleting them or downloading them.
• This lead me to read D. Grafflin, "The Onomastics of Medieval South China: Patterned Naming in the Lang-Yeh and T'ai-Yüan Wang", Journal of the American Oriental Society 103, no. 2 (1983): 383-398.
• And after that, I read lots more on TEI and eXist-db.

Writing

• Some more DMNES emails. And, I suppose I should finally announce what that is: the Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources.
• So, there's this chapter I was asked to write months and months ago. The deadline was end of Dec. Um, yeah. Working on that now.
• Reading Ruffini of course lead me back to working on Zipf.

Revising

Refereeing

• Finished up my referee report for Res Philosophica and sent it off.
• Worked on the GPMR volume some.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Paid for crown tourney reservation.

Friday, January 17, 2014

Reading

• Read and commented on a draft sent to me last night.
• Reread Burley on obligationes, and was perplexed not to find what I expected to find; then I read something more, and realized I was looking for the wrong thing.

Writing

• Since the structuralist paper is proceeding apace, I decided to spend some time setting up things for my other proposed paper for AiML.

Revising

Refereeing

• Began typing up my report for RP.

Teaching

• Reread material for today's class.
• Wrote a recommendation letter for a student.
• Attended class.

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Reading

• Olga Weijers, "The various kinds of disputation in the faculties of arts, theology, and law (c. 1200-c.1400).

Writing

• Returned to the structuralism paper, which I think I'm going to try to submit to AiML. Given that I never outlined papers I wrote in high school or for college English classes (I don't think I ever did for my philosophy ones either), it always amazes me when I actually find benefit in hand-writing an outline for a logic paper. It's generally nothing more than the major section headers, perhaps with a few subsection headers, and almost no notes, but it really is amazingly helpful. (No kidding.)
• Wrote a few more DMNES emails.
• Worked on the Nahuatl data.

Revising

Refereeing

Teaching

• Read student responses for tomorrow.

Conferences

• Not really a conference, but tonight was a Jure Fixe, which swallowed up two hours.

Miscellaneous

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Reading

• Pérez-Ilzarbe, "Disputation and Logic in the Medieval Treatises De Modo Opponendi at Respondendi", Vivarium (2011).
• Read up on the DMLBS's specs.

Writing

• Wrote a few more DMNES-related emails.
• Wrote S 3.1 of the obligationes chapter, send it back to Catarina.
• Having completed that, I allowed myself to play with Nahuatl names the rest of the day.

Revising

Refereeing

• Some IEP work.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Having finished off the FotFS paper late last night, I decided to give myself a free day -- no pressure to work on the other two papers that have the most pressing deadlines.

Reading

• Read up on TEI and other DMNES related things. Sent off a few emails to people doing similarly-structured projects. Things are coming together!

Writing

• Oops, got a reference which caused me to have to update the FotFS paper. But that's a good thing, since when I went back to the submissions page, I found I hadn't actually clicked the final "submit" button. Ooopsx2.

Revising

Refereeing

• Read a paper for Res Philosophica, and made hand-written notes. Will try to type up the report tomorrow.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Ran some errands over lunch.
• Talked with a guy from HRA for about half an hour.

Monday, January 13, 2014

Reading

• Internet was flaky for most of the afternoon, so nothing left to do but read. Decided on Ruffini, "The Commonality of Rare Names in Byzantine Egypt" (2006), got a few pages into it and had lots of interesting ideas.

Writing

• Revised DMNES proposal, and sent it off to Erik Decker. Time to find a tech person who can help us get started!
• Revised FotFS on the basis of Joel's comments. Rewrote conclusion. Submitted!
• Added some notes and thoughts and questions to Zipf.

Revising

Refereeing

• Wrote a JoLLI referee report.

Teaching

Conferences

Miscellaneous

• Filled out form to change bank accounts for my salary direct deposit. One wouldn't have thought this would be worth mentioning, except the form was 7 pages long and in German.
• Daycare wanted some pictures of our Christmas to put into Gwen's scrapbook, so I chose, printed, and cut out a selection.
• Went to the post office.
• Ordered the remainder of the DMBLS volumes I don't yet have, using my 25% off coupon!