Meet the Admin: Shivvy

Time wastes too fast: every letter
I trace tells me with what rapidity
life follows my pen. The days and hours
of it are flying over our heads like
clouds of windy day never to return—
more. Every thing presses on—

and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!

→ Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson and Thomas Jefferson, 1782
→ Originally from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Hello there, feel free to call me Shivvy. I’m a 21 year old native New Jerseyan, currently living in France. I might be a CS major, but I’m also a history minor (late 18th century US and French) and also study French language and culture. My favorite period in history: the five years Jefferson spent in France. Be still my beating heart.

I’ve loved Thomas Jefferson since the first time I saw 1776 when I was 10. Since then I’ve read too many biographies on the man (never enough Jefferson books!), seen nearly every documentary or quote on or of Jefferson, and dreamt of one day sharing my love of Jefferson with others.

Shoot me any questions you’d like, I’m always up for a challenge.