third tooth

[pywacket]

is peeping through, her upper right hand side. Oh the poor baby was up about five times last night. Hopefully this one will be over soon. I can't see if there are any more coming in at the same time, she's a wee bit touchy about her mouth right now.

More on the lovely and weird Sunday soon.

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oh the slobbery torture that is teething

[mattblakk.livejournal.com]

We got osme stuff at Rainbow for teething when Blake was going through it (since he had all 20 teeth by 18 months. . . poor bugger) it was the brown pasty stuff that had clove oil for the gum pain, peppermint oil for the tummy upset and poppy extract to knock him on his keister. It was only used as a last resort, but if they're up all night fussy, it really helps them sleep. I can try to get Fergus to find some for you if you want.

[jola.livejournal.com]

read this: http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=atalanta&itemid=170824

thought of you ... wish we could take off and hear the lecture ;p

-Jola

[pywacket.livejournal.com]

I can't, it's a protected entry ?!

[jola.livejournal.com]

My godmother is giving a big talk next week at Harvard ('Conceptions of Redemption by Blood in the Later Middle Ages: Their Context and Afterlife'); I haven't seen her in years, so I should really email her to have coffee or something. It sounds interesting; I'm sorry to say I know almost nothing about her work though (or her entire field of medieval history).

[She] "will suggest that we find in the later Middle Ages a new "blood piety" in which ideas of penal satisfaction and sacrifice led both to a new violence in religious imagery and to a new sense of pain and body as crucial to selfhood. Certain features of this later medieval piety, Bynum will argue, are still with us today. Her lecture will explore in detail two aspects of this piety: an emphasis on pain as religiously and psychologically significant and a sense of embodiment as necessary for the identity and individuality of human persons. [...] [She] will suggest that certain modern western attitudes toward pain, the body and personal identity--attitudes we tend to take for granted--are neither permanent features of Christianity nor essential human reactions but rather historically conditioned legacies of the later Middle Ages."

I think I'll probably disagree about the embodiment/personal identity stuff but I should probably wait and see what she has to say first :)

[pywacket.livejournal.com]

oh oh oh

that sounds so very tasty. And very very similar to what I focused on for my thesis.

I need to see some of her articles I'm thinking... yummy medieval blood and piety..sigh.