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[choco_frosh]

Goals for this year:
-Actually finish Dissertation research (Yeah, that might be important)
-Write at least one chapter of said dissertation
-Edit at least 50 pages of the Ammanngerichtsbuch, assuming that it´s actually true that noone els has done so before (1)
-Figure out what to do with the rest of my life
-Climb at least one 2000 meter mountain. It was for once clear enough this afternoon to SORT OF see the mountains of Appenzell (Switzerland) today. They´re topped off by Säntis, which is 2500 m...modest by Alpine or Rockies standards, but pretty frickin´ impressive when you´ve lived your whole life in New England (highest point: Mt. Washington, 1905 m) or Britain (highest point: Ben Nevis, 1400 m.)
-Cook at least two of the fish recipes in the Badisch cookbook that my landlord left behind. (I was originally going to say five out of seven, but one involves smoking an eel yourself, and another involves crayfish, which I´ve never been a big fan of, pace Seth)
-Actually learn German...

(1) The Ammann was the civil official in Konstanz, nominally appointed by the Bishop, who supervised the markets. By the fifteenth century, his court seems mostly to have dealt with debt case...including ANY major sales involving buying on credit. And whooboy, there were a lot of them. Only one book of the records, covering ten years in the early fifteenth century, survives. It´s 556 pages long and must have about 3000 entries...

Comments

[osirusbrisbane.livejournal.com]

I've never smoked an eel myself, but they are tasty.