Hey Everyone! Alright, I didn't meet my deadline, I know, but I did want to at least post the videos that I took while I was in Quebec. It really was a fantastic experience, and the city was absolutely beautiful. In case you don't know, I'll give you a little recap of why I was there and what I was doing.
Last year, a professional acquaintance (yes I said professional acquaintance, though you can read that as "another graduate student") of mine contacted me and asked me if I would be interested in serving on a panel with him at the Western Society for French History Annual Conference in Quebec City, Quebec. His work was similar to the stuff I was doing at the time (16th century history of France), so I agreed; lo and behold, a few months later we hear that our panel had been accepted. The Western Society is a pretty serious forum (i.e. not just for grad. students), so we were both thrilled to get the green light.
November 2008 comes, and I made my way up to Quebec to present my paper. I won't bore you with the details, but I'll just relay that the panel went extremely well. People seemed to like my paper, and the chair of our panel (a very notable scholar in the field) mentioned that he would recommend my paper for publication in the conference's Proceedings, a journal that they publish following the conference. Huge deal! I'm going to try to edit the paper and submit it for consideration. A publication of that magnitude at this stage in my career would be really great. I'll keep you posted on that.
Anyways, on to the stuff that you guys really want to see. I will warn that there isn't a lot of action in these videos, but there is some pretty scenery. Enjoy!
This is my best attempt to capture the parts of Quebec that I was able to see. It really was a gorgeous city, perhaps one of the most beautiful ones I've ever seen. It was like a cleaner Paris. People were there were really nice too. My favorite moment of the weekend was when I took a run in the park that borders the Saint-Lawrence River. Incredible.
Okay, I know I come across as egotistical in this video, but I took it mainly because I know Meghan wanted to see what I looked like in the new suit that we bought (on sale for less than $100!). Also, I needed a little pick-me-up as this was just before when I gave my paper.
Completely unrelated, but nevertheless kinda cool. A few days ago we had our very first snow here in Columbus, and as I am from Florida, this was worth walking outside and taking a quick video. The snow melted relatively quickly after this, but it was beautiful while it lasted.
Alright, I'm done. I'll probably throw up another post following Thanksgiving. Everyone loves videos of family!
18 November 2008
05 November 2008
Short Weekend in Pittsburgh
Hello again. Here is part two of the "three posts in three weeks" promise that I extended last week. I'll admit that I was hoping to get this up last Sunday, but things have been busy, and I'm just now trying to throw this post together as I frantically edit papers and read for class. It's been an interesting few days.
Last weekend Meghan and I had the pleasure of enjoying a quick sojourn to Pittsburgh, PA, the site of the 2008 NYWC youth convention and consequently the site of our friends Brian, Amy, Chris, and Nikki. These four are all friends from our days working for Group Workcamps, and we rarely get to see them. Moreover, Brian and Amy were coming all the way from Arizona, so the sacrifice of driving three hours seemed minute. On Friday afternoon, Meghan and I packed up and headed out; we stayed in Pittsburgh for only a day, but it was really great.
I took some videos of our time there, but I will admit that they didn't come out quite as cool as I wanted them to. Brian showed me some tricks on iMovie (the program I use to make the videos) to make videos really cool, but I came to find out that my version of iMovie (the '08 version) is significantly more limited than the version that he has. For example, I was going to film us walking across the Roberto Clement Bridge and have it play in fast-motion with music in the background, but I came to find out that iMovie '08 doesn't allow you to play things in fast-motion. Weird, I know. Anyways, I did my best, and hopefully you'll still get a kick out of them.
Meet our friends, the Andersons! They were the initial impetus for us making the trip, and they were also our kind benefactors, providing us a place to stay while there.
This was the video that was going to be really cool, but iMovie '08 tanked on me. Nevertheless, it is cool to see some shots of Downtown in the daytime and of course the beautiful PNC Park and Roberto Clemente Bridge.
Our last stop in Pittsburgh was the Church Brew Works, an amazing brewery/restaurant established in an old Catholic church. The decor was incredible (much of the church ornamentation was still in tact), and the beer wasn't that bad either. I have, what I find to be, some funny clips of Brian and Chris doing some "official" beer tasting reports.
Alright, that's it for me. I'll post another one pretty soon, as I took some video footage of my trip to Quebec this past weekend. Really good stuff. I'll tell you more later.
Last weekend Meghan and I had the pleasure of enjoying a quick sojourn to Pittsburgh, PA, the site of the 2008 NYWC youth convention and consequently the site of our friends Brian, Amy, Chris, and Nikki. These four are all friends from our days working for Group Workcamps, and we rarely get to see them. Moreover, Brian and Amy were coming all the way from Arizona, so the sacrifice of driving three hours seemed minute. On Friday afternoon, Meghan and I packed up and headed out; we stayed in Pittsburgh for only a day, but it was really great.
I took some videos of our time there, but I will admit that they didn't come out quite as cool as I wanted them to. Brian showed me some tricks on iMovie (the program I use to make the videos) to make videos really cool, but I came to find out that my version of iMovie (the '08 version) is significantly more limited than the version that he has. For example, I was going to film us walking across the Roberto Clement Bridge and have it play in fast-motion with music in the background, but I came to find out that iMovie '08 doesn't allow you to play things in fast-motion. Weird, I know. Anyways, I did my best, and hopefully you'll still get a kick out of them.
Meet our friends, the Andersons! They were the initial impetus for us making the trip, and they were also our kind benefactors, providing us a place to stay while there.
This was the video that was going to be really cool, but iMovie '08 tanked on me. Nevertheless, it is cool to see some shots of Downtown in the daytime and of course the beautiful PNC Park and Roberto Clemente Bridge.
Our last stop in Pittsburgh was the Church Brew Works, an amazing brewery/restaurant established in an old Catholic church. The decor was incredible (much of the church ornamentation was still in tact), and the beer wasn't that bad either. I have, what I find to be, some funny clips of Brian and Chris doing some "official" beer tasting reports.
Alright, that's it for me. I'll post another one pretty soon, as I took some video footage of my trip to Quebec this past weekend. Really good stuff. I'll tell you more later.
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