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Back from Franklin County Cider Days (with [personal profile] teenybuffalo! Hopefully I will post more than it was fun at some point.

Well, and this: Things To Bring Next Time
- corkscrew
- hard-copy road map
- bins/bags for apples, so that they don't spill all over the trunk
- bins/bags for bottles, cans, and jugs of cider (bay various definitions) so that they don't roll/leak all over the trunk
- hand sanitizer that doesn't smell terrible
- pocket knife
- napkins/tissues
- reusable tankard (pewter) and shot glass (plastic)

In the meantime, though, I need to get ready for condo-buying stuff, work, and guild meeting tomorrow. Wheee!
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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 )
-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...
choco_frosh: Image of the Konradigasse (former {Hof-]Schreibergasse) in Konstanz, where I lived in 2005-6 (s'gasse)
[with apologies to Harper's Index, Susan Townsend, and Margaret...
and really, to everyone reading this ;-) ]

Days until I leave for Germany: 15 (eep!)
Of these, number that will be spent driving to Maine, moving everything out of old house, and coming back: 4.
Days until Great Big Sea is performing at Toad's: 17 (grr. Everybody go, dance, scream along to the lyrics, and think of me. Fulbright orientation is unlikely that much fun)

Boxes of books stacked in my sister-in-law's bedroom: 6.
Additional boxes that will be joining them: 3 (large).
...that will be shipped across the Atlantic: 1
Papers, miscellaneous, to be sorted and boxed or thrown out: depressing numbers.

Library books waiting to be returned on bottom shelf of smallest bookcase: 15
Number of these that I have more than skimmed: maybe three.
Current year in my current Civilization III game: AD 1575.

Pages of notes on Maurer's Konstanz im Mittelalter: 33 and counting.
(not counting maps, diagrams, and bibliography)
Days until it's due: 1
Days until I meet Maurer: 70 (est.)

Number of students from my TA sections last semester who area still in town and keep bumping into me: at least 4.

Things I would like to know (random):
--where I am going to sleep between Sept. 24 and Oct 1.
--whether I should pack my dinner jacket.
--bibliographic information on guides to the archives of the Thurgau, Konstanz, and Freiburg, and of private collections in the region.
--German words for "cell phone family plan"
--ideal number of people to consume one Downside Watson.

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