My day has been a quite typical one in the early Spring, without teaching, but I did quite some teaching in Paris in the last few weeks and I really enjoyed the interaction with historians of art and architecture.
Today was quite a patchwork situation, touching almost all topics in my working life: giving thoughts to publication projects (my book on the cultural history of annotation, a DH monograph with colleagues and a smaller book with my Paris conferences in French), being in touch with our funded research projects in the field of Digital Humanities (some are being launched at the Leipzig conference today and tomorrow, especially ECodicology and NeLI [The Correspondecy Network]), organizing a conference on Digital Metalexicography with colleagues in Paris, staying in touch with my PhDs (one of them, Verena Teschke, is present at the DayofDH with our project on historical grammaticography), having a telephone conference with many countries, preparing courses (my lecture on Language Change begins next week in Trier) and trying to catch up with or run away from administrative things, ici et là….In the morning I wanted to start the day with arranging and tidying my (physical) writing desk, that will be for tomorrow, the first thing, promis … In the evening I am looking forward to a nice and cosy place on the sofa, with a wonderful a friend gave me last time we met in Graz…